Twitter is going to die • Hacker News Board

Post by rantfoil » Mon, Dec 08, 2008, 5:37 AM UTC

tdavis wrote: post #13

rantfoil wrote: post #2

Twitter isn't going to die. The argument that Twitter is like high school is valid. What's not valid is saying that high school doesn't matter or isn't how the world works. Twitter is like high school because the real world is like high school. Web 2.0 is DEFINITELY like high school. Even if we wish it weren't so.

the real world is like high school I'm interested to hear your argument on this, mostly because I've found the real world to be nothing like high school. When it comes to "Web 2.0" startups right now, sure, today's "hotness" might be nothing tomorrow, but the companies that rely on sheer high school-like popularity will fail sooner or later, just like those types of people eventually failed following high school. In…

Popularity matters, self-promotion matters, etc. It matters a ton. That's how distribution happens. As a startup, that's the most important thing out there. We get stuck in 'if you build it they will come' mode when we build our startups, but it's just not true.

Spend a few minutes looking at quantcast/compete/alexa's top 1000 and it's clear that the web is high school. From my high horse, it's filled with non-enjoyable, valueless, spammy, low-brow cruft. But my high horse doesn't mean a damn -- the only thing that matters is $$$ =)