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Wasn't Orkut invite-only at the start? I wonder how much that affected growth.
by smackfu 12y ago
Wasn't Orkut invite-only at the start? I wonder how much that affected growth.
- tesseract 12y agoIt's anecdotal but I remember being intrigued, not being able to get an invite, and then losing interest/forgetting about Orkut by the time it opened up. I think in general with invite-based launches there's a fine line between creating buzz and stifling it.
- scholia 12y agoIt worked well for Gmail, and it worked pretty well for Orkut at the start. For technical reasons, they weren't able to handle the huge influx of users that would have come from opening it up to everyone.
- tesseract 12y agoThere have been some invite-only success stories to be sure. (You could almost count Facebook, too.) The usual way of handling it these days seems to be allowing people to add themselves to a waiting list as an alternative to being invited.
- saraid216 12y agoI don't recall being invited to Orkut, though I could be wrong about that.
- smackfu 12y agoLooks like it changed in October 2006, and so was invite only for the first 2.5 years: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/10/orkut-doesnt-require-invitation_20.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/10/orkut-doesnt-requir...