The problem with Twitter is that they ALWAYS LOG YOU OUT. ALL THE DAMN TIME! What the HELL Twitter? I'd tweet a LOT more often if I didn't have to keep freaking logging in. GEEZ.
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74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
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Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#22And how much of that 74% even uses Twitter at all? I can't believe they completely ignore that aspect of it since it renders the statistic completely meaningless.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#23I just can't get bullish about Twitter for the long haul with mainstream adoption. I know I might get flamed for this, but I'm trying to give some observations: * Tech inclined, but non-industry friends just don't see the value of Twitter. The word pointless is used almost every time. * Those that try it leave very fast. That's where the 10 tweets per person seems to be about right. * The engagement just isn't there.…
I'm not sure where I stand on Twitter. But to add another datapoint, a speaker at our school(unc chapel hill) asked how many people are on Twitter and about half the room raised their hand. I know for a fact the j-school and b-school are really pushing Twitter use to their students.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#24If you look at the Y scale of their graph, It should be clear that the middle mass of tweeters are spammers. The lowest hashmark on their scale is 200,000 tweets.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/03/twittering-dis...
200,000 tweets would be roughly 5 tweets every hour since Twitter was created. There is a mass of such spammers in the 1,000 followers range because 1,000 seems to be the order of magnitude that accounts can get to by semi-automated following and unfollowing.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
My impression is that Facebook stole a lot of the potential Twitter thunder. For communicating among your Facebook friends, Facebook status updates are at least as good as Twitter, maybe better. A lot of my friends are on Facebook, more every day; far fewer are also using Twitter. IMHO Twitter is a tool for following interesting people who aren't close enough to you to be your friend in something like Facebook. But w…
I used the college kids example not as a "twitter is meant for younger people" example. It's the fact that college campuses are usually good predictors of technologies and apps that are gaining mainstream popularity. Ironically Facebook is growing heavily in the older segment, which is making the "Facebook stealing twitters thunder" even more important. Another overlooked demographic of the twitter userbase is the ur…
I prefer the simplicity of Twitter: I don't want pictures, I don't want video, I just want the info. (The only reason I'm on Facebook is because I am a college student and my peers are all on there.) I also feel that Twitter better facilitates useful information exchanges which is harder with the clutter of Facebook.
As far as the urban audience, I think one of things that makes Twitter a little closer to MySpace is that ability to customize your background. I think that might be a part of it, but certainly not all of it.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
My impression is that Facebook stole a lot of the potential Twitter thunder. For communicating among your Facebook friends, Facebook status updates are at least as good as Twitter, maybe better. A lot of my friends are on Facebook, more every day; far fewer are also using Twitter. IMHO Twitter is a tool for following interesting people who aren't close enough to you to be your friend in something like Facebook. But w…
I used the college kids example not as a "twitter is meant for younger people" example. It's the fact that college campuses are usually good predictors of technologies and apps that are gaining mainstream popularity. Ironically Facebook is growing heavily in the older segment, which is making the "Facebook stealing twitters thunder" even more important. Another overlooked demographic of the twitter userbase is the ur…
Rapper mentions and urban demographics didn't save the T-Mobile Sidekick. I don't think it's a meaningful indicator of larger things.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
My impression is that Facebook stole a lot of the potential Twitter thunder. For communicating among your Facebook friends, Facebook status updates are at least as good as Twitter, maybe better. A lot of my friends are on Facebook, more every day; far fewer are also using Twitter. IMHO Twitter is a tool for following interesting people who aren't close enough to you to be your friend in something like Facebook. But w…
I used the college kids example not as a "twitter is meant for younger people" example. It's the fact that college campuses are usually good predictors of technologies and apps that are gaining mainstream popularity. Ironically Facebook is growing heavily in the older segment, which is making the "Facebook stealing twitters thunder" even more important. Another overlooked demographic of the twitter userbase is the ur…
i wondered yesterday what new earthquake had brought down twitter, it turned out just being america waking up and twittering too many #ripbig
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#28I'm 19 and from New Zealand. I've never heard anyone my age rave about twitter. There doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to use it when we already have facebook. It is hard to understand why you would want to follow random strangers.
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#29I'm 19 and from New Zealand. I've never heard anyone my age rave about twitter. There doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to use it when we already have facebook. It is hard to understand why you would want to follow random strangers.
Few years ago, my cousins in India would tell me the same thing about facebook: hey we have orkut why would we need something else?
Fast-forward now, and they are all gung-ho over facebook. Not sure if Twitter is on the same trajectory but your line of argument("we already have x, why need y?") is very weak going by history.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#30I'm 19 and from New Zealand. I've never heard anyone my age rave about twitter. There doesn't seem to be any compelling reason to use it when we already have facebook. It is hard to understand why you would want to follow random strangers.
Sometimes people who are not your friends have interesting things to say.