DISQUS

Matthew Brazil · 1 year ago

Great post - I can't agree with the 'Blessed' logic. Rather I would say that the people that use Twitter are the ones that have created the value. Regardless of if the site is up or down people will continue to use the site whilst their personal networks continue to deliver value. When Twitter collapsed several weeks ago and wiped all of my followers panic set in, I was not alone in searching out and registering on alternative Microblogging sites. The problem with this however was that my network became dispersed over several sites, loosing it's value and convenience immediately. So when Twitter came back to life and my followers reappeared everyone conveniently forgot the problems.

It is the people you follow and those that follow you that give the value.

MartinSFP · 1 year ago

They're not the only startup to go through a bad period and come out on top. I remember when Last.fm (then called Audioscrobbler) would quite regularly lose user data. Now it's highly reliable and going from strength to strength.

ontarioemperor · 1 year ago

Remember that the fail whale is only a topic of discussion around the early adopters. By the time the later adopters and CNN had shown up, either the problems had been fixed or the newer people used Twitter at the 1-2 tweets a day level and hardly noticed the fail whale. Yes, they still have no business plan, but at this stage I really don't care any more, and CNN hasn't asked that question yet.

Jon Buscall · 1 year ago

I bet Morten Lund would agree. He's the guy that just lost a personal fortune after his baby, Danish newspaper Nyhedsavisen went bust even with massive investment, great journalists, and so on.

His honest-joe account of the failure on his blog (in English) http://lundxy.com/?p=3182 reads like a Bonfire for the Vanities Web 2.0.

Ed · 1 year ago

Twitter should have failed?

Nah. I know what you mean, but I can't all count the A-listers that spend more time
on Twitter everyday than on their own sites!

I describe it as my home page.

christan singles · 8 months ago

I bet Morten Lund would agree. He's the guy that fair-minded lost a personal fortune after his baby, Danish newspaper Nyhedsavisen went bust even with massive piece, great journalists, and so on.