Platform starts, intelligent, well-spoken early adopters sign on.
Fast forward 7-8 years. Platform is overrun by normal people.
Early adopters leave and move on to the next platform
The cycle continues.
The End of Big Twitter
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#22Twitter is useful and interesting, but your idea of rich conversation is shallow or weak if it was ever satisfied by conversations that were had 140 characters at a time.
Well, it is the only platform where "famous" people (or their agents) have personally replied to me. Nobody would even bother to read my tweet if it was longer. It is as rich as it can get.
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#23Platform starts, intelligent, well-spoken early adopters sign on. Fast forward 7-8 years. Platform is overrun by normal people. Early adopters leave and move on to the next platform The cycle continues.
Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.
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#24This is great. It's just perfect.
The service purposefully limited to naturally content-light context-light 180-character quips—whose intent is to broadcast and be broadcasted to unfiltered—achieves its destiny.
The result is natural and unavoidable. I'm so happy we're beginning to realize it.
Seriously though, this is one of those unmeasurables that's difficult to nail down. Sure you could blame it on changes to the UX, or on the user-base itself, or any number of other reasons. But in the end, you've gotta look at the nature of the form of communication itself and its parameters and assumptions, and make a conclusion at face value.
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#25This is fantastic news. Openness isn't inherently good; sharing everything and allowing others into our lives isn't automatically better.
Not only because of the attacks and general constant stream of stupid "content" that comes from even the most interesting of people, but since social networks make us unhappy.
Hopefully people will stop using broadcast based social networking. You heard it here first, one to one communication is the next big thing (tm)
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#26Platform starts, intelligent, well-spoken early adopters sign on. Fast forward 7-8 years. Platform is overrun by normal people. Early adopters leave and move on to the next platform The cycle continues.
Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.
I don't really see Quora ever getting the regular Joes.
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#27Re: The End of Big Twitter
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.
I don't really see Quora ever getting the regular Joes.
The kinds of conversations I have seen on Quora and arguments about god and other things have led me to believe it's already kind of overrun with silliness.
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#29I was just starting to really like Twitter. Is it really the end? I have my doubts. Something is going to have replace it first, and it wont be Facebook since Facebook has conflicts family and private groups with public sharing.
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#30Platform starts, intelligent, well-spoken early adopters sign on. Fast forward 7-8 years. Platform is overrun by normal people. Early adopters leave and move on to the next platform The cycle continues.
Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.
Well, HN used to be much more technical early on, so I'm sure some would argue it's already happened.
Long gone are the days of waking up to a front page full of Erlang posts in an attempt to scare off the general public whenever there was press about HN. I think it's been accepted that HN is more just general interest about startups these days.