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The Facebook Phone
- ojbyrne 18y ago"Yes I know what you're thinking: Facebook is so completely over. It's yesterday's news. It's irrelevant. It's expired." You know, I was actually thinking that about Twitter. Twitter has jumped the shark. Facebook has jumped the chasm.
- unalone 18y ago"Jumped the chasm" meaning "made it over safely?" I don't know if I've seen anything recently claiming decline in Facebook. I think Twitter seems to be hitting a sort of limit. It's not picking up new people quickly, at least within my observable network. On the other hand, it's gaining a lot of older users. Most of my extended family is now on Facebook, aunts and uncles and grandparents included.
- ojbyrne 18y ago"Crossing the Chasm" is a popular book in Silicon valley, and basically refers to making the leap from early adopters to a mainstream audience - it's clear that facebook is there, and benefiting a lot from it. And twitter isn't there quite yet. They are stuck in the chasm, which I referred to as "jumping the shark," suddenly verging on not being cool, but with no real mainstream audience awaiting them.
- unalone 18y agoGotcha. Thanks for explaining!
- awad 18y agoAm I the only one put off by the talking heads on TV proclaiming that their network or show is on twitter and then proceed to have only a vague notion of what the service actually is?