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Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium

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On 2014-07-17, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2014 21:09:03 GMT
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-07-15, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> > So in a way, it [Twitter] works slightly more like usenet.  We toss messages out
>> > there, and whether you read it depends upon whether you subscribe to
>> > view the group the message is within.
>> 
>> Twitter's *exactly* like Usenet, except there's only one "group" - misc.misc.
>> 
>> Among the many ways it's shit is that it doesn't scale. Once you follow
>> enough people, the Tweets arrive way faster than you can keep up, and unless
>> you have a Twitter client that saves them(*), they vanish off the bottom of the
>> list and are lost.
>> 
>> Yet another example of someone reinventing Usenet, badly.
>> 
>> (* I don't know if any do that. The two I use don't.)
>
> Huge is right.  

Yay!

> Not to mention the 140
> character limitation makes it useful for short, pithy declarations but
> pretty awful for meaningful conversation. 

The other horrid things people do is post longer rants as a series of
140 character lumps, or as pictures of text!

> Maybe
> because it gives you a steady stream of novelty on your smart phone -
> i.e., it's mildly distracting.

I suspect it's this. I see one or two things each day which make me laugh
out loud, which is enough to justify keeping it. I've also discovered that
ranting at corporate helpdesks on Twitter is way more effective than
other means of communicating with them.

No way in a million years would I pay for it. And I have no idea how
(or indeed, if) they are making money.


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Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-12 17:39 +0000
  Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-07-12 20:15 +0000
    Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-07-13 00:05 +0100
      Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium G Skinner <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-07-13 21:40 +0000
        Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-14 04:21 -0500
          Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-15 20:51 +0100
            Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-15 21:00 +0000
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-07-15 21:09 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-17 12:46 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-07-17 14:33 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-17 16:06 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-07-17 13:55 -0400
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-15 23:59 +0100
              Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-16 11:32 -0500
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-07-16 18:02 +0000
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-16 19:29 +0100
                Re: Twitter Business Model and the End of Freemium "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-07-17 07:17 -0500

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