Comments on: Twitter Skepticism

By: Twitter was a hype « Franziska Philipp's Blog

Twitter was a hype « Franziska Philipp's Blog — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:04:16 +0000

[...] could not convince all its registered users, as many of them only tweeted once and then drop it, as Fabrice Grinda stated in his [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:29:40 +0000

I stopped using twitter after 2 days… I much rather use Facebook! To be honest I never really saw the interest in using Twitter.

By: Rodolphe

Rodolphe — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:31:23 +0000

I agree, I prefer Facebook. Much more complete.

I liked your interview in USA Hebdo on BFM by the way.

By: Niro

Niro — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:00:45 +0000

Your followers huh?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:38:06 +0000

I fully agree with you. I do not understand this buzz with Twitter. I am not a fan of the system with the followers. It is too spammy for me. You can manage with a mobile phone your blog directly through email (I do it) and it is more convenient than Twitter.

And I do not understand their business model. How can they earn money without advertising ?

By: Cem Sertoglu

Cem Sertoglu — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:21:20 +0000

Timely HBR data: http://csertoglu.typepad.com/sortipreneur/2009/06/nobodys-twitting.html

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:15:00 +0000

1. It’s a good corporate communication tool.
2. It’s a good way to tell friends what you are up to.
However, I am suggesting that no one in their right mind should buy them for $1 billion.

Well-put.

However, while Twitter is cool. It appears to be poorly managed. And with this latest round of funding, there is no way their VCs will let them exit for less than $1b. Which won’t happen.

BTW 10% of active users are responsible for over 90% of all Tweets.

Source: http://adjix.com/em2y

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:35:44 +0000

Well, “kids” don’t blog either. Kids won’t blog until they feel empowered enough to start creating on their own accord or until they find it useful — hell, “kids” might never ever take to Twitter, except that they will want to engage with TMZ Staffers on Twitter (@harveylevintmz @daxholt @ninaparkertmz @lmharris70 @carolynafenton @frankvelardo) because there will be loads of kids who will get on board to be able to stalk their favorite celebs and stars. But who knows. Rockers and fans are still on MySpace and the “kids” have yet to bail on Facebook (yet) so we’ll see what happens. It is very odd to see how the median age for blogging and twittering is much older than you would think: “the median age of a Twitter user is 31. In comparison, the median age of a MySpace user is 27, Facebook user is 26 and LinkedIn user is 40.7,” according to Pew, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Twitter-and-status-updating/Part-1/Section-3.aspx?r=1

By: Cem Sertoglu

Cem Sertoglu — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:25:49 +0000

@chris – thanks for the comment here. very insightful. how about the issue with kids not using twitter?

By: Twitter’s Hype is different than Second Life’s

Twitter’s Hype is different than Second Life’s — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:14:12 +0000

[...] of my favorite clients, Fabrice Grinda, believes that Twitter is hype, Twitter Skepticism — the kind of ugly hype associated with Second Life. Well, I consider this a very fine [...]