web1979.wordpress.com — This guy gives 3 reasons why "Twitter will flame-out before the end of 2007, in one of the most awe-inspiring lessons in irrational exuberance we’ve seen since the turn of the millennium." What do you think?
Mar 14, 2007 View in Crawl 4
Closed AccountMar 15, 2007
Search for yourself you lazy f**king s**t.
Closed AccountMar 15, 2007
No they don't, most people on MSN Messenger fill their name up with annoying song-lyrics and far too many emoticons, then do the same with the "Personal Message" field too..I really doubt Twittr will catch on, it really serves no purpose, if you want to know what someone is doing, ask them, if you want to talk to them, email/IM/acctual go and talk to them. The only vaugly decent use of Twittr I've seen is using it to shove RSS feeds to phones and such
littletinyfishMar 15, 2007
This was a horribly written article with Nosterdomus-like predictions. The evidence he prevents for it's failure are that he believes it's going to fail.
armbarMar 15, 2007
It's on a different level, but Thomas Paine's writings effectively had the same purpose: to help the common people learn that certain things were stupid and they should think for themselves.I have absolutely no problem with people pointing out the stupidity and inanity of many things in the world, Twitter included.
anodosMar 15, 2007
Wrong thread... Guess digg doesn't handle stories in multiple tabs.
darkspireMar 15, 2007
Some of us don't need third party apps to do this. I can text "groups" of people from my phone and have multiple text messages sent out to all of my friends. This counts as one sms on my plan. Alternatively I can send an email to my friends various email to sms gateways (usually phonenumber@company.com) and send them all text messages for free. There are a half a dozen other ways I can text people in groups or at no cost, and if that's the only reason to use twitter, then it will be dead before the end of the year.
laterallateralMar 15, 2007
I will agree with you that there is much validity to cautionary journalism in the degree that the topic the article raises caution about could have adverse health, moral or financial impact. This is cretainly not the case here. Most people will recognize immediately their having a use (or lack therof) for it. On the flipside, some people will need to try it out in order to find that out. I've signed up for a number of these things (Me.dium come to mind) and realized that I have absolutely nothing to gain from them and It's caused me no great hardship to simply stop using them. I believe your statement about free choice is best illustrated here: Develop an opinion based on your own preferences and experiences as opposed to of having it fed to you by some disgruntled blogger.Besides, can you think of any example in witch people unable to choose for themselves were miraculously able to do so, uppon recomendation?"I'd recomend you choose for yourself" "If you say so"
laterallateralMar 15, 2007
Thanks for the head's up on Thomas Paine, by the way.Didn't know about him. Common Sense looks like an interesting read.
flukierdonutMar 16, 2007
please someone explain to me what the hell twitter is......i just can't figure it out
mredamonMar 22, 2007
Flukier, here is a realtime feed of twittering. <a class="user" href="http://twittermap.com/twittervision.">http://twittermap.com/twittervision.</a>Personally I think this service has potential, if people think about what they say before they say it. Some twitters are putting thoughts or musings out there that are actually quite interesting.But this is basically shorthand blogging, and you have complete control over who can read your comments and whose comments you read. It won't die anytime soon.
flukierdonutApr 5, 2007
I just love how I get dugg down for asking a question...classic digg community..thanks for the answer mredamon
rrhobbsMar 22, 2008
3/21/08 I'm addicted
roroweMar 22, 2008
Twitter.com = microblogging. The value in it comes not from the service itself, but the network of people you follow. I, for example, follow many educators, technology theorists, and musicians, as well as friends that exist both in the "real world" and various other "social networks". Predicting Twitter's death is as silly as predicting the death of MySpace, Facebook, or any of the hundreds of networking services out there. In my opinion, if you hate it, ignore it.
karenswimMar 22, 2008
It's nearing the end of Q1 2008 and Twitter is not dead. As with all web 2.0 applications the user determines how they employ the technology. You can get caught up in the Facebook hug me applications and other silliness or you can utilize it to make business connections. You can tweet what you're feeding your cat for dinner or share business resources. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it can be said that usefulness is the hands of the user.
twittertutorMar 25, 2008
writing this in March '08 and Twitter is alive and kickin'
aemolinaApr 11, 2008
Can you give me some example on topics? Where do you subscribe to Twitter broadcasts of topics of interest? Aren't tweets supposed to be really short text messages? How much info do you really get about a given topic? I just don't understand the allure.
Closed AccountAug 24, 2008
writing in August 08 and Twitter was just featured on CNN - not dying so much