Twitter is like MicroPOOP Windoze too Large an installed User Base to Bite the Dust* Actually the A-Listers who are biotching are the same ones that Ballooned Twitter in the 1st Place*
Now Nobody Blogs anymore!!
;)) Peace*
I do like FriendFeed tho + even Pownce looks Nicer*
Sharon Bray-McPherson
· 1 year ago
Hmm, I remember people saying that eBay would never make it when it first started, because of "downtime issues".
GeekMommy
· 1 year ago
Twitter will survive... it just won't be the "golden child" anymore. Facebook didn't kill MySpace - but you sure have different user bases there.
Shazzer
· 1 year ago
Maybe I'm just stupid, but I don't understand how anyone would find FriendFeed to be a reasonable substitute for Twitter. They are two completely different animals.
Then again, perhaps part of Twitter's scalability issues are that lots people use it as a content-aggregation service...something it really wasn't ever intended to be. If those folks all migrate over FriendFeed...Twitter will rebound nicely for those who actually use it to microblog.
hombrelobo
· 1 year ago
After the collapse of twitter I moved on to Plurk (http://plurk.com) and I am very happy with it. The interface is difficult at first, but aftere a few minutes you understand how great it is. Fantastic tool
Victoria
· 1 year ago
Twitter will remain, although perhaps some of those who are using it for purposes other than those for which it was intended might drift away. For example - Twitter was surely never meant as a replacement for RSS, to "announce" changes to your blog! I've spent a good few weeks trying out the obvious alternatives, and nothing does the mobile integration as well as Twitter, which was always its USP. FriendFeed is like Outlook, it shows you messages but it doesn't *replace* e-mail - it enables you to *use* e-mail - so as much as e-mail won't go away because of Outlook, Twitter won't go away because of FriendFeed.
And yeah, that reply thing was weird. But I've been replying successfully throughout the week on SocialThing, which I happen to think is much better than FriendFeed and will wipe the floor with it as soon as its out of private beta.
In other news, what happened to claimid.com?
bryanbro
· 1 year ago
Twiiter is still king.
Mark Pilatowski
· 1 year ago
Many of my associates and friends are abandoning Twitter for Plurk. Not too long ago these same people could not stop hyping Twitter. I like both platforms as they serve different purposes for me but if Twitter continues to have problems it might not be too long before I abandon it too. I really hope they get things fixed soon because I like it better than Plurk for some things.
dan90266
· 1 year ago
Twitter's life support system is probably more robust than many of us appreciate. They have a giant ecosystem of third party support, and I cannot believe that their infrastructure problems are insurmountable.
The key differentiator with FriendFeed is still the size limitation of a tweet. It lowers the level of anxiety that many people feel when posting their thoughts in a public forum.
Also, the size of the ongoing conversations on FriendFeed are really too much for me. I'm not following a lot of people, and I do need to limit my consumption of A-Listers, but when I go there it just seems like too much effort to try and keep up. With tweets, they are short, and it's the brevity that makes me feel like it's OK if some of them slip by unnoticed.
is ruby on rails the problem?
· 1 year ago
I think all their problems are because their using RUBY ON RAILS. Isn't it?
A lot of people lately have been dissing Ruby ON Rails because it's so slow and has a lot of issues!
nafnosseb
· 1 year ago
This is sad. Twitter must fix its problems now. I think plurk is an inferior alternative and if they both have a large userbase then our microblogging will be fragmented between plurk and twitter. Also try not to smack me down too heavy-handedly if this is completely inaccurate, but it looks like Plurk's graphical interface is not suited to MIDs.
EP
· 1 year ago
Twitter dead?. That´s very naive.
ajax
· 1 year ago
RIP twitter, at least they got their money before it jumped the shark.
lets hope FF get theirs
Chris Shouse
· 1 year ago
You can always check your replies for twitter at www.summize.com in fact it is better because it shows your @ no matter where in the 140 characters your name is:)
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Now Nobody Blogs anymore!!
;)) Peace*
I do like FriendFeed tho + even Pownce looks Nicer*
Then again, perhaps part of Twitter's scalability issues are that lots people use it as a content-aggregation service...something it really wasn't ever intended to be. If those folks all migrate over FriendFeed...Twitter will rebound nicely for those who actually use it to microblog.
And yeah, that reply thing was weird. But I've been replying successfully throughout the week on SocialThing, which I happen to think is much better than FriendFeed and will wipe the floor with it as soon as its out of private beta.
In other news, what happened to claimid.com?
The key differentiator with FriendFeed is still the size limitation of a tweet. It lowers the level of anxiety that many people feel when posting their thoughts in a public forum.
Also, the size of the ongoing conversations on FriendFeed are really too much for me. I'm not following a lot of people, and I do need to limit my consumption of A-Listers, but when I go there it just seems like too much effort to try and keep up. With tweets, they are short, and it's the brevity that makes me feel like it's OK if some of them slip by unnoticed.
A lot of people lately have been dissing Ruby ON Rails because it's so slow and has a lot of issues!
lets hope FF get theirs