I think Twitter will become boring if they keep doing those mobile messages for a long time, whereas in Facebook, Bebo it is a logical add on with plenty of other features in them.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Fair point. Right now, however, it's not particularly well integrated into the Bebo site. Seems like a trial run.
Greg Harris
· 2 years ago
I have to say I am not surprised. The thing that has been bothering me since Twitter started getting so popular, was that I new I could build it in a weekend. I give them credit for an interesting idea, but it's too easy to copy.
The only barrier for entry is having to absorb huge sms bills without any revenue. Facebook and Bebo have the money to do it. To them it literally is just a feature.
Hopefully Evan and team will find some way to monetize, or sell it off quickly.
If Myspace gets into the game, then it could be the beginning of the end.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Greg,
MySpace's track record for implementing cool features is not good. Even after upgrading their photo hosting for instance (unlimited uploads etc), the kids still use Photobucket. Same thing with MySpace Slideshows.
And I think the overlap between MySpace and Twitter is minimal. Twitter has more of a Yahoo/Google-fanboy audience (alpha geeks), so releases from those guys would be most damaging.
My guess is that Yahoo could buy them.
Andrew Johnson
· 2 years ago
Hmm, they should have filed a business process patent!
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Maybe they did?
Gary King
· 2 years ago
Facebook's last move was the beginning of the end of Twitter. I mean, Twitter is a one-trick pony - it does one thing, albeit one thing well. But that's it, really. People eventually want more.
Michael
· 2 years ago
This is why I had a feeling Twitter would fail. All the other, genuine, social networks that actually have a large user base can, and have, easily added the same functionality to their already advanced set of tools.
Jose Hernandez
· 2 years ago
Myspace has had the "bulletin" feature for several years now. The presentation is different, but the functionality is essentially the same.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
I don't think this is the same, really. I mean, Bebo already had a mass mailing option within the mail section, which does the same thing as bulletins. The choice of name and character limit certainly make you think this is more of a Twitter-type service than a bulletins service.
Pay
· 2 years ago
I still prefer to use twitter, since they are first. Nothing beats the original.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
So was Friendster.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
OK, technically it was 6degrees or whatever, and probably something else before that. But if we go back that far, I guess we could say that Dodgeball was the first sociable mobile app to catch on.
zeroinflunencer
· 2 years ago
heh! Zeroinfluencer get caught on Mashable's screen grabs. Kewl!
See, in Germany we now have 4-5 Twitter clones, more or less the same functionality.
The question here is though that maybe startups in the US might want to look a bit more into the international market and provide localized versions from the start. Of course we all do learn english here at school but many are nevertheless more inclined to use german (or in the european/worldwide context their native language).
(and one german service, texteln.de even now provided an API and they also do have more functionality like comments and the like. But then again I like the limits of Twitter somehow and maybe these make it what it is).
Edd Mills
· 2 years ago
What makes me laugh is that if MySpace did this, everyone would be in up in arms accusing them of destroying Twitter. I doubt that MySpace will copy the feature - let's face it, they've only just caught onto the idea of photo galleries - but it is only when MySpace copies that the line will be drawn.
John
· 2 years ago
Is this a surprise? Did Twitter ever have any competitive advantage or barriers to entry? A revenue model even? You can't patent the process of sending messages. This is inevitable.
kayley
· 2 years ago
hey u alryt ? wubu2? im kayley im 17 u ?
wrt bk xx
rebecca
· 2 years ago
hi wdc
x r x e x b x e x c x c x a
vaspers the grate
· 2 years ago
I hate the wording: "What are you doing?"
Twitter is effective only when you deconstruct it, and type in anything but what yr doin'.
Nobody cares what anybody else is doing, unless the doing is instructive, insightful, linky. We only hope a tiny miniscule fraction will care what we think or belief or confess to.
Most Twitter addicts never read anybody else's tweet, except perhaps for an occasional glance at a tweet by a spouse, lover, partner, colleague, parent, child, neighbor, co-worker, or "celebrity" (see: End of Stardom, Rise of Everyone by Vaspers the Grate).
Twitter works when you violate it's strategy, when you move to the margin at type in what you're feeling, thinking, or linking to.
As in blogs, what you ate for lunch is a sucky topic and only idiots webcast such tripe. Unless you're eating tripe, then maybe we'd be interested in how to cook cow intestines or whatever that and headcheese is.
Links and insights and heads up are the only good tweets.
You go where the smart messages are. As of now, that is Twitter. Even right this moment, as it experiences server overload apparently, and graphics are disabled, and interface is slow, we are still loud and proud.
Helpless Twitter Addict in Extremis
miss shorty
· 2 years ago
can someone tell me how to get on to bebo casue it is blocked on ere and i want to go on it plz reply and tell me how?????????????????
Ilya
· 2 years ago
Cool
kayley
· 2 years ago
hey ppz u alryt ? wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
kayley
· 2 years ago
hey ppz u alryt ? wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
kayley
· 2 years ago
hey ppz u alryt ? wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
jamie
· 2 years ago
Oh my god! Everyone knows Bebo is an inferior copy of Myspace but that is such a rip off I have a website for my youth work which my OWN ex headmaster copied - maybe he works for bebo - hes the kinda guy i imagine uses bebo a lot if you get what i mean!!
I therefore am totally against web-plagurism and long to see the day of better online copyright!!
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Any thing, I prefer twiiter *u*
The only barrier for entry is having to absorb huge sms bills without any revenue. Facebook and Bebo have the money to do it. To them it literally is just a feature.
Hopefully Evan and team will find some way to monetize, or sell it off quickly.
If Myspace gets into the game, then it could be the beginning of the end.
MySpace's track record for implementing cool features is not good. Even after upgrading their photo hosting for instance (unlimited uploads etc), the kids still use Photobucket. Same thing with MySpace Slideshows.
And I think the overlap between MySpace and Twitter is minimal. Twitter has more of a Yahoo/Google-fanboy audience (alpha geeks), so releases from those guys would be most damaging.
My guess is that Yahoo could buy them.
The question here is though that maybe startups in the US might want to look a bit more into the international market and provide localized versions from the start. Of course we all do learn english here at school but many are nevertheless more inclined to use german (or in the european/worldwide context their native language).
(and one german service, texteln.de even now provided an API and they also do have more functionality like comments and the like. But then again I like the limits of Twitter somehow and maybe these make it what it is).
wubu2?
im kayley im 17
u ?
wrt bk xx
x r
x e
x b
x e
x c
x c
x a
Twitter is effective only when you deconstruct it, and type in anything but what yr doin'.
Nobody cares what anybody else is doing, unless the doing is instructive, insightful, linky. We only hope a tiny miniscule fraction will care what we think or belief or confess to.
Most Twitter addicts never read anybody else's tweet, except perhaps for an occasional glance at a tweet by a spouse, lover, partner, colleague, parent, child, neighbor, co-worker, or "celebrity" (see: End of Stardom, Rise of Everyone by Vaspers the Grate).
Twitter works when you violate it's strategy, when you move to the margin at type in what you're feeling, thinking, or linking to.
As in blogs, what you ate for lunch is a sucky topic and only idiots webcast such tripe. Unless you're eating tripe, then maybe we'd be interested in how to cook cow intestines or whatever that and headcheese is.
Links and insights and heads up are the only good tweets.
You go where the smart messages are. As of now, that is Twitter. Even right this moment, as it experiences server overload apparently, and graphics are disabled, and interface is slow, we are still loud and proud.
Helpless Twitter Addict in Extremis
wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
wubu2 ?
wrt bk xx
I therefore am totally against web-plagurism and long to see the day of better online copyright!!
Great Article
Cheers
Jamie