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What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?

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Re: What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?

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post #20

Well, all the dutch HN readers will agree it would be "Etter". But I personnaly don't think this would change much. For me there are two categories of information: private and public. For the private information email is the only solution and for the public solution I have my personal website. People who don't have their own website/blog won't care on who's server the messages are. * EDIT * I was just thinking, isn't…

So ... why do people use Twitter, when blogs already existed?

What I mean is that most people who use twitter don't care at all whether the messages are on their own server or on a server owned by some company.

Re: What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So ... why do people use Twitter, when blogs already existed?

What I mean is that most people who use twitter don't care at all whether the messages are on their own server or on a server owned by some company.

The same is true of most people who use email, but email still wouldn't have become as widespread as it is today if it weren't interoperable with other email servers.

Re: What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?

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post #5

Instant messaging?

isn't that more like one of the parents of twitter (the other being email)? I always saw twitter as slow IM

if email is one of the parents of twitter and is now parenting a child with it, aren't we looking at a live case of....INCEST here?
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