hugh4 · HackerTrans

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I take offence to the notion that beers are fungible.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I don't see it so much as a tool as an experience. The twitter experience is almost always the same, which is why I got bored of it.

> What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast

> What my vague acquaintance had for breakfast

> What my vague acquaintance thinks about politics, which I need to grit my teeth and not reply to.

> Slightly amusing post from a well-known celebrity I follow, which someone will post on facebook later in the day anyway.

> Slightly amusing post from a well-known celebrity I quite deliberately don't follow, but which gets retweeted into my feed anyway.

> A politician I am starting to regret following wants my money.

> What some well-known celebrity I don't follow had for breakfast

Tools do something useful. Twitter doesn't -- at least, not for 95% of users.

hugh4

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I'm still not sure how that requires a number of employees comparable to, say, NASA JPL.

hugh4

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

>I don't think Twitter is going anywhere; it has a huge user base and a lot of people think of it as a branch of the internet.

It's not going anywhere in the next year or two. But in five years? Ten years?

Twitter's main problem is that it has one product, and it's possible to get bored with that product. It's not really possible to get bored of googling things or buying things off amazon, but it's entirely possible to get bored of twitter.

Remember when every man and his dog had a blog? (Or possibly a livejournal?) Remember when the word "blogosphere" was all over the news? What happened to all the blogs?

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