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Twitter – there she blows!

mr-mojo-risin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:26:38 +0000

Ok, Twitter has had to fight many battles, the hardest one still is the fail whale – and spammers.
I heard about Michael Jackson beeing delivered to the hospital due to twitter.com was off, so my good ol’ TV attracted my attention, there I heard the news…

Nevertheless these troubles are just a sign of the incredible success twitter.com is facing at the moment. Establishing as an important news source, marketing tool or social play ground the service it self has to evolve…

Now they have taken the first step, aplusk beeing the first tweeter to break the 1,000,000 followers barrier, now having 2,530,98, the twitter coders finally smoothed up the user management. You can choose between a list view and a expanded view showing the last Tweet, additionally there is a option menue offering the following activities: mention the twitter user, send a direct message, unfollow and block user.

But it still ain’t a big hit, but think it looks (a little bit) sexier now. There still are no batch operations, which would be an evident feature for the the most people…

There is still a lot to do in the twitland backend – execpt locking up the fail whale securely…

Social Media Sites (an update)

mr-mojo-risin — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:20:38 +0000

Here’s an attempt to build up a little list of the most important social media sites.

As it is far from being complete, it will be expanded from time to time…

Twitter vs Friendfeed

mr-mojo-risin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:25:00 +0000

The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.

Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more.

Definitely the value of information might be varying, but like on twitter it users can adjust that by choosing their subscriptions.

Looking at the user stats both are steadily growing with twitter being comfortable in in the lead.
One of the reasons for this distance is certainly twitter started in August 2006 and friendfeed in October 2007. Another cause might be twitter is used for communication, friendfeed on the contrary deals in information. This shows why the geek ratio on friendfeed is definitely higher…

As a result both services will mostly not bother each other in the future, with their target audience being to different and having unequal demands.
So Twitter vs Plurk or Friendfeed vs GoogleReader would give much more challenging and interesting fights…

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