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I'll just refer to my previous comment about twitter. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378541 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378541 Outside hacker new
by trezor 18y ago
I'll just refer to my previous comment about twitter.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378541 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=378541
Outside hacker news and "Valley-oriented" news-sites I've hardly heard it mentioned.
Twitter may have potential, but it still has massive usability problems, and at large is one of the few services I've signed up for which has offered me absolutely nothing of value and no way to improve on that.
Saying twitter, a bandwidth hole with no actual plan to monetize on its service, is worth millions is clearly overstating its value, even with its current user-base.
- paulsilver 18y agoIt was mentioned on the front page of The Guardian (national UK newspaper) of Nov 29th, here's the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/29/mumbai-terror-attacks-terrorism1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/29/mumbai-terror-at... It is no where near as mainstream as Facebook, but it is starting to be mentioned in mainstream places, not just in the technology sections. To be honest, I'm not sure Twitter will go mainstream like Facebook has. Most of the value I get from it is to be in touch with friends throughout the day. Not a lot of workplaces will let you do that (mine does, but that's a benefit to being self employed :-) ) From what I see, Facebook is more oriented around much more asynchronous usage, which is a lot easier for most people to use.