DISQUS

Manoj Ranaweera · 7 months ago

Like the idea of letting founders cash in during investment rounds. See you on the 8th June at http://www.nwstartup20.co.uk/jun09. Had to postpone commercialisation of edocr.com till June 1st due to few technology hiccups in migrating the front-end to EC2. Here is our first commercial application http://www.edocr.com/organisation

Fabio De Bernardi · 7 months ago

My 2p on Twitter growth... Twitter isn't a straight forward service and it takes time to a) understand it and b) use it in a meaningful way. I mean a meaningful way to justify the time you spend on it as a user. Now, I have no hard data to support this, but my gut feeling is that the 40% growth after Oprah appearance is very likely to be very poor in terms of quality. How many of those 7M-ish new users will stick around? 1%? Yeah, 1% is my guess.
At the same time the percentage of spam/fake accounts following me in the past 2 weeks has definitely grown by more than 40%.

thom singer · 7 months ago

Social Media is all still so new that mid-sized and profitable has no way of proving to anyone that there is any sustainability. The HUGE hype that Twitter and Facebook have is the most important part for them.... as people are fickle and could lose interest for a new toy. MySpace is rarely mentioned, but two years ago was all the rage (although they still have users, I have not heard anyone mention them in a long time).

The problem with Twitter is that there are a lot of users who never do crap with their accounts, and too many people have followers who ignore them by using Tweet Deck (and others). Thus, what is the point if nobody is listening.

But hype will always be a wonderful tool for companies if they can ride the wave.

Don't get me wrong, I use Twitter (and like it) and have discovered some captivating personalities from whom I learn. But not sure it has really grown... most folks seem to open an account and get bored quickly, which makes me question its real impact.

brisbourne · 7 months ago

Thanks Thom - it would be interesting to see an analysis of what activity across the user base and also how many people's tweets are screened by Tweetdeck et al

Paul Fisher · 7 months ago

Nic I wonder how long twitter will be able to sustain this: 1) Is it just a feature? 2) Neilsen points to Attrition being very very high. http://tinyurl.com/cyr3l7 haven't you found it becoming just far less useful? http://tinyurl.com/c4yawk

brisbourne · 7 months ago

Good questions Paul - and they are the big ones for Twitter. Personally I am using it more and more.