news.cnet.com— The microblogging service runs the risk of becoming too prevalent without a clear path to revenue. There is a risk in becoming ubiquitous before you make money.
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I don't care about that stuff. And it is very narcissistic. Not even your best friend should care what you are up to at this very minute. It can wait until you see them again.But it's odd. If you don't have one of those, you simply don't exist. I'm just waiting for the kids to start looking at you funny, sorta like if you don't own a cell phone something must be wrong with you. What? No facebook? You must have no friends! You creep! Not sharing your every waking moment on Twitter? You freak!Social networking? Or a new form of fascism? Will be interesting to see things in a decade or so, when the people that haven't been collecting friends, buddies, followers, etc. get left behind for good. It kinda strikes me as the untouchables in India.
I wouldn't be too worried about Twitter, read very similar articles about MySpace back in the days, and now they dominate at monetizing their user base, something Facebook is still trying to figure out how to do.
I can answer your questions in the context of how I use twitter:I mean, what's the point? Keeping up with my family. My mother, father, sister and wife all twitter regularlyHow do I find people to follow?I've never gone looking for people to follow. I follow people I know in real life.Why do I care what they have to say?Because I know them in real life Why are they even saying them?Because they want to keep the rest of us up to date on what they're up to.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2009
I don't care about that stuff. And it is very narcissistic. Not even your best friend should care what you are up to at this very minute. It can wait until you see them again.But it's odd. If you don't have one of those, you simply don't exist. I'm just waiting for the kids to start looking at you funny, sorta like if you don't own a cell phone something must be wrong with you. What? No facebook? You must have no friends! You creep! Not sharing your every waking moment on Twitter? You freak!Social networking? Or a new form of fascism? Will be interesting to see things in a decade or so, when the people that haven't been collecting friends, buddies, followers, etc. get left behind for good. It kinda strikes me as the untouchables in India.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2009
I AM GOING POOP & ITS COSTING ME A NICKEL!
yooaadrianJan 22, 2009
I wouldn't be too worried about Twitter, read very similar articles about MySpace back in the days, and now they dominate at monetizing their user base, something Facebook is still trying to figure out how to do.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2009
Flush Twitter down the s**tter.
Closed AccountJan 22, 2009
Ha ha ... he said "tweet"
arunaJan 23, 2009
Why do companies such as Jetblue, Comcast, or Dell need brand awareness? They're already well known. And why would smaller companies go this route?
merrebornJan 24, 2009
I can answer your questions in the context of how I use twitter:I mean, what's the point? Keeping up with my family. My mother, father, sister and wife all twitter regularlyHow do I find people to follow?I've never gone looking for people to follow. I follow people I know in real life.Why do I care what they have to say?Because I know them in real life Why are they even saying them?Because they want to keep the rest of us up to date on what they're up to.
merrebornJan 24, 2009
Twitter doesn't come up as a misspelled word because it is a real word.It's an onomatopoeia for birdsong.