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This is the worst thing that could happen to twitter. Google's brand doesn't have quite the same cachè it used to. Today, it means being bought with no improvem

by geuis 18y ago

This is the worst thing that could happen to twitter. Google's brand doesn't have quite the same cachè it used to. Today, it means being bought with no improvements to the service for at least a year after that. Look at Grand Central and Jaiku as examples.

sam_in_nyc 18y ago
They wouldn't have to brand it as Google. Think: Yahoo buying Flickr. I also could imagine some pretty terrible things happening to Twitter... like, for example, the site displaying "FUCK OFF" on every page load, forever.
- taciturn 18y ago
  That certainly does seem unwise.
- ahoyhere 18y ago
  Yahoo! couldn't resist fucking with Flickr, though. Or delicious. Think about the damn tying it to freakin Yahoo! accounts, which look like they're out of the stone age, and the "you have to log in every 2 weeks to save a bookmark" feature they added to delicious, etc., etc. etc. If people fuck with Twitter like that, it'll be gone. Service instability is one thing. Adding so much friction is another.
  - sam_in_nyc 18y ago
    Not being a Flickr or Delicious user myself, other than created an account to try it out, I don't know all the end-user effects of the Yahoo acquisitions. But it seems like Flickr and Delicious have turned out alright!
ojbyrne 18y ago
Ok, spelling/grammar nazi time. The accent over cache would be only slightly pretentious if you didn't have it pointing the wrong way (caché is the slightly archaic spelling you're struggling to remember). But the fact that the word you're looking for is "cachet" makes it a double fail.
- systemtrigger 18y ago
  Who is being pretentious now?
  - ojbyrne 18y ago
    I don't see how pointing out poor english is pretentious. Especially when it's not a case of someone speaking it as their second language, but someone trying to put on airs and getting it wrong.
- geuis 18y ago
  So glad you could take the time to correct me. Just made my day. So yeah, I forgot "cachet" as an alternative spelling and was typing the comment from my phone. So you're the $10/hr Digg guy? Still sore about that?

by geuis 18y ago

sam_in_nyc 18y ago

They wouldn't have to brand it as Google. Think: Yahoo buying Flickr. I also could imagine some pretty terrible things happening to Twitter... like, for example, the site displaying "FUCK OFF" on every page load, forever.

taciturn 18y ago
That certainly does seem unwise.
ahoyhere 18y ago
Yahoo! couldn't resist fucking with Flickr, though. Or delicious. Think about the damn tying it to freakin Yahoo! accounts, which look like they're out of the stone age, and the "you have to log in every 2 weeks to save a bookmark" feature they added to delicious, etc., etc. etc. If people fuck with Twitter like that, it'll be gone. Service instability is one thing. Adding so much friction is another.
- sam_in_nyc 18y ago
  Not being a Flickr or Delicious user myself, other than created an account to try it out, I don't know all the end-user effects of the Yahoo acquisitions. But it seems like Flickr and Delicious have turned out alright!

ojbyrne 18y ago

Ok, spelling/grammar nazi time. The accent over cache would be only slightly pretentious if you didn't have it pointing the wrong way (caché is the slightly archaic spelling you're struggling to remember). But the fact that the word you're looking for is "cachet" makes it a double fail.

systemtrigger 18y ago
Who is being pretentious now?
- ojbyrne 18y ago
  I don't see how pointing out poor english is pretentious. Especially when it's not a case of someone speaking it as their second language, but someone trying to put on airs and getting it wrong.
geuis 18y ago
So glad you could take the time to correct me. Just made my day. So yeah, I forgot "cachet" as an alternative spelling and was typing the comment from my phone. So you're the $10/hr Digg guy? Still sore about that?