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Re: Twitter Continues to Fail Developers, Why They Will Still Succeed

John Lessnau — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:00:24 -0000

To this day I still get the blue whale once in a while. However, I guess I was wrong on twitter. First to market in the micro-post space definitely helped them. Then when the celebs jumped aboard the masses came in to stay. Any "Twitter Kille"r will now need to offer something special that twitter doesn't offer (what that is I don't know). I need to give them props for coming up with such a simple idea which easy site to develop and get up and running. I sure wish I thought of it a year earlier. :-)

Re: Twitter Continues to Fail Developers, Why They Will Still Succeed

Jesse Stay — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:08 -0000

I know a few that are already, actually. They have asked that I not blog
about them yet because they want to be absolutely sure they are prepared for
a load. One in particular that I am thinking of is actually profitable at
the moment - they're coming, that's for sure.

Re: Twitter Continues to Fail Developers, Why They Will Still Succeed

John Lessnau — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:16:47 -0000

It is unbelievable that someone with a bit of cash and some smarts does not developer a Twitter killer and put it out of its misery. It's not like they are serving Youtube sized files, they are serving simple text messages. The problem is they built the service on an unstable foundation and continue to patch holes and plug leaks while the foundation continues to crumble. The time is so right for someone with a few hundred thousand dollars to build a Twitter knock off that actually works.