Comments on: Apparently You People Don’t Really Care About Twitter Downtime

By: My very first blog posts « Scott T. Frey

My very first blog posts « Scott T. Frey — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:13:12 +0000

[...] their service. Buying Summize can put them on their way, and let’s be clear, as of right now, no one gives a shit about Twitter’s [...]

By: Q: Does design matter? « Design-Build-Review

Q: Does design matter? « Design-Build-Review — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:28:43 +0000

[...] better than Plurk. Its recent popularity has certainly been helped by the TechCrunch coverage of Twitter’s downtime, but is has flourished in spite of its [...]

By: JungleG » Blog Archive » Let it go, Twitter is not going to die

JungleG » Blog Archive » Let it go, Twitter is not going to die — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:29:34 +0000

[...] Unfortunately this is very much the case with influential online communities: users will stick with it for better or worse. [...]

By: Brandon J. Mendelson

Brandon J. Mendelson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:32 +0000

Duh. The alternatives suck, and the downtime is a non-issue to everyone but the tech snobs.

By: Reid

Reid — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:14:33 +0000

I’ve seen a lot of non-techies giving Twitter a try in the last month or so, but very very few of them do more than two or three posts. However, I also got my first spam follow last night, and if Twitter can’t add in new features, they’re going to have a hard time stopping spam.

I think FriendFeed is a better product, but it’s harder for non-techies to figure out.

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M1K3¥’s b-log » Blog Archive » audio, picture and videomail — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:09:44 +0000

[...] think part of the reason that people are far from abandoning Twitter is that not only is that where the core conversation is taking place, where the people are, but [...]

By: Ole Eichhorn

Ole Eichhorn — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:05:53 +0000

Add me to the list of people who’s life goes on while Twitter is down. Or FriendFeed.

And in case you’re wondering why I would spend time saying so, it is because I find the media’s fascination with both to be navel-gazing, and it is fun to call them on it

By: eas

eas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:20:23 +0000

The same thing has been true of MySpace. For much of its existence, performance has been horrible, and its been rife with error messages, and yet, it kept growing.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:39:57 +0000

early adopters migrated to FriendFeed? No, everyone on Twitter is an early adopter. For most people it’s just too much noise. For people who make their money in the blogosphere it’s a great tool, for everyone else it’s just too much information.

By: TheFlamingoKing

TheFlamingoKing — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:04:08 +0000

For a website that “no one cares about”, Twitter articles sure get a lot of comments and traffic on TechCrunch.

So, maybe TC keeps putting their daily Twitter vs. FriendFeed article up because – SHOCKING – it brings in money for them.

Personally, I think the worst thing in the world is a long, drawn-out comment stream of “i don’t care about twitter, this article’s dumb, other people are dumb for caring about something i dont” BS. I don’t use a Mac – should I go on every Apple article on TC and post “macs are dumb, no one uses them for business, mac people are just fanboys”?

Saying “I don’t care about this article” in the article comments is such a waste of time and space. You obviously read the article, and cared enough to comment. That’s traffic, baby. That’s exactly what TC wants.

By: Petr

Petr — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:22:14 +0000

Yeah.. I must agree with most people here,..noone cares about Twitter .. period.

By: Big John

Big John — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:18:42 +0000

Here’s a shock: no one cares about Twitter’s uptime except technorati like Arrington, Scoble and the rest of the people with 10,000+ followers.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:01:07 +0000

I think that Twitter will give way to another service. It's very hard for the first company to be the best one - they stick to what worked for them in the beginning and new, more flexible ones start eating their candy.

By: Eden

Eden — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:37:48 +0000

Why would I bother with FriendFeed when everyone is on Twitter?

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:48:03 +0000

When Twitter is down, we just wait til it comes back up. Status updates are great to have, but not essential items. IE: It’s annoying, but we understand the growing pains. Twitter has enough critical mass to become a verb, and it’s probably over the hump of acceptance to groups who are influenced by early adopters. It only has to make it to the next stage of mainstream acceptance and none of the other services will matter. I think they have enough momentum and name recognition to do it. People just want one good thing, not dozens.

By: Cure Dream

Cure Dream — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:25:47 +0000

Are you guys investors in Friendfeed or something? Friendfeed’s another of those sites that I don’t think anybody would take seriously if it wasn’t mentioned twice a day in Techcrunch.

There IS a way to beat Twitter, but none of you Twits will try it… Make a site that targets the 99.9% of the population that lives outside Silicon Valley. Find a way to market to people like that… Then the rest of the world will care.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:44:35 +0000

You people? Oh no you didn’t!

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:37:31 +0000

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By: Michelle / chelpixie

Michelle / chelpixie — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:23:09 +0000

It’s the people. Twitter allowed us to create our own communities, we can’t find the same communities, the same complete group of people anywhere else…..until we get fed up and leave Twitter.

By: Jas

Jas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:35:03 +0000

Nice last graph there, friendfeed huh? lol

By: mateo reider

mateo reider — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:02:43 +0000

There are hundreds of noteworthy events occuring in this industry every day. Why, oh why, do you keep reverting back to the same twitter buzz-o-thon? If you guys blog about twitter one more time in the next few weeks I am going on a permananent techcrunch vacation. Who is with me?

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links for 2008-07-09 - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:32:57 +0000

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» twitter e mai rezistent decat pare in pr … Sufla.ro — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:30:53 +0000

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William Kasel — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:23:02 +0000

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Web Entrepreneur William Kasel » Is twitter invincible? — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:09:13 +0000

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