4 ms·

Phone Calls Come to Twitter with @call @username

15 points by BorisBomega 17y ago

ujjwalg 17y ago
I knew jajah was disrupting the chat/voice call business, but this is just brilliant.
- teej 17y ago
  I'm having a really hard time seeing the brilliance in this. First off, the barrier to entry is -huge-. Both people need to have accounts on both services. That's four accounts for one call. Secondly, it's allowing you to activate a service via Twitter that should already be easy to do. If it's hard to make a call on Jajah to another Jajah user, they're doing something wrong. Third, Twitter isn't a command line. I don't type things into Twitter that I want to do. It's a simple, many-to-many communication channel. This doesn't fit in to the way people use ( or don't use ) Twitter currently.
  - ujjwalg 17y ago
    just to give you an example.. all the big dating sites (match.com/eharmony.com) have a secure calling service and they charge money for a user to be able to use it... now on twitter which is again a social site, you can do that without giving much away.. and see how it goes.. before actually going on a date and exchanging real numbers..
    - teej 17y ago
      I don't see how this is a useful replacement for just using Jajah, Skype, IM, or email.
thaumaturgy 17y ago
A 2-minute phone call? I'm supposed to interrupt my workflow for the sake of a 2 minute phone call? No. The only time I want to get on the phone with someone is if I can communicate faster or better that way.
- ujjwalg 17y ago
  i dont think it will be used to call friends/family.. on twitter you can essentially follow anyone.. it will be used by people who dont want to give away their numbers...
robbed 17y ago
So if somebody looks at my twitter feed then they can see who I'm calling? I'm not sure I'm ready to broadcast that.
charliepark 17y ago
I think the biggest disconnect I see with this is that few people use Twitter as a synchronous one-to-one communication tool. It's used as an asynchronous one-to-one communication tool, and as a synchronous one-to-many / many-to-one communication tool. But the Jajah offering seems to be forcing a technology into a paradigm that isn't built for it.

15 points by BorisBomega 17y ago

ujjwalg 17y ago

I knew jajah was disrupting the chat/voice call business, but this is just brilliant.

teej 17y ago
I'm having a really hard time seeing the brilliance in this. First off, the barrier to entry is -huge-. Both people need to have accounts on both services. That's four accounts for one call. Secondly, it's allowing you to activate a service via Twitter that should already be easy to do. If it's hard to make a call on Jajah to another Jajah user, they're doing something wrong. Third, Twitter isn't a command line. I don't type things into Twitter that I want to do. It's a simple, many-to-many communication channel. This doesn't fit in to the way people use ( or don't use ) Twitter currently.
- ujjwalg 17y ago
  just to give you an example.. all the big dating sites (match.com/eharmony.com) have a secure calling service and they charge money for a user to be able to use it... now on twitter which is again a social site, you can do that without giving much away.. and see how it goes.. before actually going on a date and exchanging real numbers..
  - teej 17y ago
    I don't see how this is a useful replacement for just using Jajah, Skype, IM, or email.

thaumaturgy 17y ago

A 2-minute phone call? I'm supposed to interrupt my workflow for the sake of a 2 minute phone call? No. The only time I want to get on the phone with someone is if I can communicate faster or better that way.

ujjwalg 17y ago
i dont think it will be used to call friends/family.. on twitter you can essentially follow anyone.. it will be used by people who dont want to give away their numbers...

robbed 17y ago

So if somebody looks at my twitter feed then they can see who I'm calling? I'm not sure I'm ready to broadcast that.

charliepark 17y ago

I think the biggest disconnect I see with this is that few people use Twitter as a synchronous one-to-one communication tool. It's used as an asynchronous one-to-one communication tool, and as a synchronous one-to-many / many-to-one communication tool. But the Jajah offering seems to be forcing a technology into a paradigm that isn't built for it.