DISQUS

BrianSullivan · 1 year ago

I think the investors can kiss their $15 million goodbye. Twitter's 15 minutes of fame is over.

ianbetteridge · 1 year ago

Yes, it might now have chance to evolve into a service which has (1) Reliability, and (2) A revenue stream.

ianbetteridge · 1 year ago

Here's my prediction: a year from now, Scoble will be lashing out at FriendFeed and moving on to the next service. Robert is like a lover who falls crazy in love with something, then, when it inevitably disappoints him, decides that it's the worst thing in the world and must be slated constantly. See also: Facebook.

shadytrees · 1 year ago

> Here's my prediction: a year from now, Scoble will be lashing out at FriendFeed and moving on to the next service.

There's another word for this: parasite.

Scobleizer · 1 year ago

ianbetteridge: that might be true, but there's plenty of stuff I stick with and don't find horrible jagged edges which cause me deep pain to where I want out. Facebook, for instance, has some really severe problems that keep it from being a business utility (more news will break on yet another guy who got kicked off that service for behaving normally). Twitter? I love the idea of Twitter, but it's 1/3 down right now (the most important part, for me, which is the IM client). FriendFeed? I've put a lot of stuff into there in the past two months and it's always been fast and responsive. Twitter had problems far earlier in its lifespan in terms of reliability than FriendFeed has had yet. Now, will something better come along than FriendFeed? Probably. That's part of this life. I remember back in the 1980s everyone was on BBS's. No one even remembers what those are now. Then we moved to Prodigy. That's gone today. Then we moved to AOL. Most early adopters aren't on that. Then we moved to CompuServe. That's gone. Then we moved to Usenet. I haven't been on that for a decade now. Then we moved to the web and here we are, still looking for the perfect place to hang out together.

ianbetteridge · 1 year ago

Heh, Robert, that's a long role call of services you've killed :)

mathewi · 1 year ago

Ouch :-) Robert, for what it's worth I don't hold you responsible for
the decline of Twitter -- or the death of Prodigy for that matter :-)

mdoeff · 1 year ago

Robert said:
"Twitter? I love the idea of Twitter, but it's 1/3 down right now".
Robert, just the other day you recorded a Qik video (http://qik.com/video/85882) praising Twitter for doing a controlled downtime. Now you are blaming them for being down. Consistency please! :)

kcarruthers · 1 year ago

I've said it before - if you build an application and then open it up the global masses you've got to plan for success. Twitter is a classic case study in unanticipated success. Most sites would be glad to have Scoble & Laporte as active users. Twitter needs to work out how to scale & do it fast. It has created a devoted and active user community that is worth supporting.

SDC · 1 year ago

Scoble is a 'top' user. Comedy gold.

Maggy Young · 1 year ago

Concerning the final question on the blog, - should Twitter limit users' friend numbers ? - I think no, as this is unfair on later 'frienders'. Sites do best by adapting to what their users want, not users being forced to adapt to the constraints of the site.

notahater · 1 year ago

Man, this is great. Scoble is having a hissy fit! He´s becoming more of a joke as the days go on! IRONY

Alcara Jose Hiram · 1 year ago

Maybe Scoble is just a big-headed that thinks he is the only one with big numbers in twitter. What about Twitter against his clients? Since when you paid twitter for their services? Friendfeed? Give it a month or so and you will find something wrong about the service that you don’t like and you will start attacking them too. Who’s next QIK? Plunker? Whatever is new next week? Scoble move on please.