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Yes, it's as fake as those PTC sites like http://bux.to http://bux.to.

by nx 18y ago

nirmal 18y ago
That link makes my point more succinctly. Thanks.
- nx 18y ago
  You are welcome. And by the way, have you seen the ads on those sites? Right now: Hottest Clickbank Products, Make Money in 4 Minutes!, $3,456/daily, Fat Loss 4 Idiots / Weight Loss and Diet Center to paste a few. Is that going to happen with Twitter?
amichail 18y ago
Could you elaborate? Read My Tweets is a symmetric site. All the users are tweeters advertising to each other.
- nx 18y ago
  Exactly, you read somebody's tweets for the sole purpose of getting other people to read your tweets, and they only do that so that more people read theirs, and so on, you get my point. And then maybe, just maybe there is this chance that one of the tweets you read is actually not so bad and you subscribe. As far as I'm concerned, if someone has something interesting to say, he won't use Read My Tweets to get the word out there, he'd probably rather use reddit or some other place where quality of content does matter, and not how much time you have spent reading tweets from somebody else who you don't care about. I'm sorry if I'm being a little harsh, but it is what happens with Myspace or Fotolog, but doesn't happen, or hasn't yet happened with Facebook or Twitter: becoming a stupid service because the users just want to be "popular". Sites like yours make that happen. And it's a profitable business, there are tons of morons who want to be "popular". It worked great for Fotolog, here in Argentina we have this sort of urban tribe that people call Floggers, they dress in a weird manner just to get "popular" and get tons of visits on their personal Fotolog pages. I like Twitter because of the interesting thoughts, that's why I like HN too, not because it's a magic formula to Internet popularity. Please don't make it that.
  - amichail 18y ago
    If you believe you have interesting things to say and are willing to invest the time to get many people to hear them, then I don't see anything wrong with that.
    - nx 18y ago
      Yes, but at the same time I'd rather use a service where quality of content is more important than the time spent on a site reading somebody else's tweets you don't care about. And yours is not a bad idea, but I, personally, wouldn't use it. Everybody is free to do whatever they want, I don't see anything wrong with that either.

Yes, it's as fake as those PTC sites like http://bux.to http://bux.to.

by nx 18y ago

Yes, it's as fake as those PTC sites like http://bux.to http://bux.to.

nirmal 18y ago

That link makes my point more succinctly. Thanks.

nx 18y ago
You are welcome. And by the way, have you seen the ads on those sites? Right now: Hottest Clickbank Products, Make Money in 4 Minutes!, $3,456/daily, Fat Loss 4 Idiots / Weight Loss and Diet Center to paste a few. Is that going to happen with Twitter?

amichail 18y ago

Could you elaborate? Read My Tweets is a symmetric site. All the users are tweeters advertising to each other.

nx 18y ago
Exactly, you read somebody's tweets for the sole purpose of getting other people to read your tweets, and they only do that so that more people read theirs, and so on, you get my point. And then maybe, just maybe there is this chance that one of the tweets you read is actually not so bad and you subscribe. As far as I'm concerned, if someone has something interesting to say, he won't use Read My Tweets to get the word out there, he'd probably rather use reddit or some other place where quality of content does matter, and not how much time you have spent reading tweets from somebody else who you don't care about. I'm sorry if I'm being a little harsh, but it is what happens with Myspace or Fotolog, but doesn't happen, or hasn't yet happened with Facebook or Twitter: becoming a stupid service because the users just want to be "popular". Sites like yours make that happen. And it's a profitable business, there are tons of morons who want to be "popular". It worked great for Fotolog, here in Argentina we have this sort of urban tribe that people call Floggers, they dress in a weird manner just to get "popular" and get tons of visits on their personal Fotolog pages. I like Twitter because of the interesting thoughts, that's why I like HN too, not because it's a magic formula to Internet popularity. Please don't make it that.
- amichail 18y ago
  If you believe you have interesting things to say and are willing to invest the time to get many people to hear them, then I don't see anything wrong with that.
  - nx 18y ago
    Yes, but at the same time I'd rather use a service where quality of content is more important than the time spent on a site reading somebody else's tweets you don't care about. And yours is not a bad idea, but I, personally, wouldn't use it. Everybody is free to do whatever they want, I don't see anything wrong with that either.