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Yeah, like everyone switched away from Windows the minute they started milking their platform. Or how everyone switched off Gasoline when it hit $4/gallon. Or h
by javery 17y ago
Yeah, like everyone switched away from Windows the minute they started milking their platform. Or how everyone switched off Gasoline when it hit $4/gallon. Or how everyone stopped paying for Cable when the cable companies jacked up the prices even more. Once they own the network that everyone is using it will be almost impossible for imitators to take it away.
- nir 17y agoWell, maybe like how people switched from ICQ to MSN to gTalk to Skype, or from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit to HN. Opening a user account on a competing website is much easier than changing OS or car engine.
- moe 17y agoYou're not seriously comparing twitter to these things, are you? What will they do when a competitor offers to "keep your account in sync with twitter" (tweets and followers)? Forbid it in their TOS ofcourse - and that's the beginning of the end. Also get over the "everyone is using" myth. Last time I checked the number of twitter accounts was in the ballpark of 0,1% of the internet population. Based on their publicized, inflated figures mind you - likely including all dead and double accounts.