Twitter's special for ONE REASON ONLY: Unlike Facefook it forces the cattle, I mean users, to be concise in their ass digging and nose scratching. Or hasty, anyway.
Anyone remember WBS chat back in the mid 90s? Or any HTML chat room that that you had to constantly refresh to catch responses? That's what Twitter is, but with a ridiculously low character limit. Its shocking how retarded the media and bloggers sound when they struggle to describe HTML chat in therms that don't sound as stupid as "HTML chat."
@Ian McCollum: It's almost as stupid as 'SMS chat'. Ooops! That's that marketspace that Twitter's trying to catch. Else why would you have a 140 char limit?
I need money. Some shorts are going to make a fortune shorting this silly, overpriced stock. But it probably won't happen until pigs have wings. I guess I can save up my allowance until then.
I thought this "Biz Stone" was just peddling execu-babble to Colbert, but now that I actually try the "beta" search feature of Twitter I can see why it is worth well over $500M. For instance, by searching "is down" I can see that Hottie510's DSL modem is down, etsy.com is down for Demi Moore, and root.box.sk might be down for a few people. This is very useful information.
@squidbait: Exactly. Twitter does have value. I've noticed a trend on Valleywag and this is how I have learned about Owen's process for writing about things.
1. What's hot right now?
2. Who's running the company
3. What did they do wrong in the past?
Twitter is hot
Evan Williams is running the company
Oh wait, he's done nothing wrong? Well let's just write about how it was just luck and make some shot at how he won't be so lucky a second time.
Squidbait has an excellent point. Despite what you think about people that are using the service, there ARE people using the service and there is information going into it. Owen might argue that no one cares what you ate for lunch but companies like Google do care and no other service captures that data like Twitter does.
Google is wondering what they should charge for cream cheese adwords placement and they look at the buzz around cream cheese on Twitter. They can graph it and use it for anything they want.
The point is, Owen, that despite how stupid, worthless or needless the information on Twitter is, it's still information, it still can be used for something and it still can be used to sell ads and that's all that matters.
Owen, I'm not asking you to kiss anyone's ass but having read Valleywag for nearly 2 years, I've seen this trend of what you choose to write about.
Oh and um... love your work, keep up the great stuff! LOL
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And yes, Google -is- the next AOL.
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1. What's hot right now?
2. Who's running the company
3. What did they do wrong in the past?
Twitter is hot
Evan Williams is running the company
Oh wait, he's done nothing wrong? Well let's just write about how it was just luck and make some shot at how he won't be so lucky a second time.
Squidbait has an excellent point. Despite what you think about people that are using the service, there ARE people using the service and there is information going into it. Owen might argue that no one cares what you ate for lunch but companies like Google do care and no other service captures that data like Twitter does.
Google is wondering what they should charge for cream cheese adwords placement and they look at the buzz around cream cheese on Twitter. They can graph it and use it for anything they want.
The point is, Owen, that despite how stupid, worthless or needless the information on Twitter is, it's still information, it still can be used for something and it still can be used to sell ads and that's all that matters.
Owen, I'm not asking you to kiss anyone's ass but having read Valleywag for nearly 2 years, I've seen this trend of what you choose to write about.
Oh and um... love your work, keep up the great stuff! LOL
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Web 3.0 here we go...
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Can you tell which kind?
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