What is the big deal with Twitter?
The blogosphere rattles with information about Twitter almost daily. Here’s one post about Twitter moving down the road. Who the hell cares? Another post on Techcrunch about how they are pulling service in UK should indicate to all the fanboys out there that they don’t really know what they are doing with the service. If my company gave a way free BMWs, I’d have a pretty rad company – that wouldn’t necessarily mean I was newsworthy the way Twitter has been.
The company doesn’t have a revenue model and gets more press coverage than it deserves. Techcrunch repeatedly runs stories about uptime/downtime of the service and it’s not used a whole lot by folks outside the state of California.
In a twist of irony, I say the following: bloggers blog for the sake of blogging sometimes. They have nothing to write about, so content is “invented” to take up what should or could just be empty space. Now’d I’d probably do the same if blogging were my business, but still – not on Twitter and perhaps something that really rivals the stories in the New York Times perhaps?
Yes your right, it doesn’t get more ridiculous than this.
Jonny Tokyo
August 14, 2008
“The company doesn’t have a revenue model and gets more press coverage than it deserves.”
Lets not forget that Google didn’t have a revenue model at first either.
“it’s not used a whole lot by folks outside the state of California”
Colorado doesn’t count I guess.
Pete Laurina
August 14, 2008
Pete – on the subject of Google, I’d say that they knew they’d monetize on keyword advertising close to the get-go. With Twitter, they have been draining funds on outbound SMS delivery for a while now (it just costs them less in the US than in the UK I presume). I’d say Twitter is a “pump-and-dump” company in that the founders will wait for a user base to cross a particular threshold and then sell their company (read: users) to their acquirer and let it be their problem.
socialboy
August 14, 2008