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If a Thought Leader Told You to Jump Off a Cliff …

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Over the past few months, Twitter has been plagued with downtime. They even went so far as to turn of their replies feature, turn off their API and turn off IM integration. The result was that some of the most vocal community members started running elsewhere. Whether it was Plurk, Identi.c ... Continue reading »

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Guy
12 months ago

Great post!

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Jason Preston
12 months ago

I was just talking with someone at FriendFeed about this at lunch today - how difficult it is to mesh the various conversations that are happening all over the place into one coherent narrative.

This is one of the things that Disqus is trying to do, I think, and it always seems to come back to data portability.

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Vitak
12 months ago

My thoughts on Twitter's continued success despite the plethora of problems is that as with most things, any press is good press. Even if people are hearing their friends talk badly about Twitter's constant downtimes, it still may spark their interest enough to create an account.

Also, I think it's still fairly safe to say that Twitter is the only microblogging site that has really caught on outside of the early adopters/tech-inclined group. Out of my "real life" friends, none are on FriendFeed, Plurk or Identi.ca.

And last, but certainly not least, any site whose "our site has crapped out" graphic becomes a celebrity is certainly not going anywhere. Long live the Fail Whale!

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