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This article seems kind of strange, talking of "Twitter haters" and "this loathing of all things Twitter", and what "The media wants you to believe". IMHO Twit
by nir 18y ago
This article seems kind of strange, talking of "Twitter haters" and "this loathing of all things Twitter", and what "The media wants you to believe".
IMHO Twitter is getting an amazingly positive treatment from the media. Anyone following the tech media has seen their share of hype, but I cannot remember anything that got so much coverage for so few users.
In any case, why would you even care? In the long run, if Twitter's valuable it will stay, if not it will fade. "The Media" and "the haters" have absolutely zero influence on that.
- rw 18y ago"The Media" does matter because it serves to recruit more users, thus increasing the size of the Twitter network and thereby the utility provided to everyone.
- nir 18y agoIn that case, any coverage of Twitter in the media is positive almost by definition?
- rw 18y agoCoverage is positive by definition only if it leads to increased profit for Twitter.
- randomwalker 18y agoThis is true. I crawled the twitter graph back in Dec 07 as part of my research on social networks (which is coincidentally on HN currently), and I was shocked by how few users they had (at least in the giant connected component, which is really all that counts.) The numbers that were being thrown around by Arrington and co. were ten times greater. Twitter has indeed received an amazingly positive coverage, if not for which it would have taken them far longer to get to their current user count (and who knows if they would have had enough cash in the bank in that case?)