Chris Baskind - Latest Comments in Why Twitter Must Die

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Hey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:38:48 -0000

Twitter isn't a a social site its the opposite
If a person twiits or what its called like everything they do they are anti-social
Like when Twitter was down thousands of people were like WHAT AM I GONNA DO!?! MY LIFE IS OVER!!! WITHOUT TWITTER WHAT SHOULD I DO!?! And that isn't socialism thats anti socialism Twitter is ruining peoples lives thats why TWITTER MUST DIE!

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Sky — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:10:20 -0000

Twitter needs to die and die fast! What a waste of space and garbage mound this site is. Who the hell cares what people are doing to with their day in 2 sentences or less every f*&^ing 5 minutes. What a colossal waste of time that must be to update the world (who doesn't care anyways) about what you're doing. Damn I hope this site's hype fizzles, quickly. We're sick of hearing about twitter this, twitter than. Just die.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

pam — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:09:01 -0000

I like it.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

charpie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:58:18 -0000

Twitter is what you make it. If you want to use it as a journal, you can. It is a recording of a thought, a comment, or a record of day-to-day events or experiences. It's stamped in time, yet it's organic in its pattern of inputs.

How can you, StevenHodson, consider it NOT a journal? You say it's "note passing like teenagers in class..." but how is that so? It's not necessarily directed at any one person. It's not in secret. It's to whomever wants to listen, and perhaps that's nobody. When you wrote notes in class, did you write hundreds of the exact same note and give them to everyone you know?

No, sir, it is NOT "far from being a method of journaling." It's a way for people to express themselves in their own manner. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it, but you also don't have to bring down those who enjoy it for what it is.

Keep dwelling on your "database nightmares" and you'll give yourself a heart attack. Who cares if they live of VC money? Good for them. Stop sounding jealous and go back to your cave.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Bitter End — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:08:40 -0000

And right now strawberries are fresh. :-)

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:25:11 -0000

Summer is short, and autumn is just around the corner. :-)

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Bitter End — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:18:29 -0000

Personally I have lived over 40 years happily without Twitter. I have never understood how it would add some quality into my life. Beside, real life can be found elsewhere. A good thing is you can get there by taxi.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:20:59 -0000

Plurk is mentioned at the foot of the article. Interoperability between services would certainly reduce the impact of outages, but I don't know how willing these companies will be to play nice.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Shayna — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:14:38 -0000

I don't know if this was mentioned in another comment (I admit I didn't read all of them), but you forgot about plurk as an alternative. I am not up on whether they are planning ahead enough to avoid twitter's problems, but so far I have had a good experience with the site. The key would be for plurk to design a feature so you could import your twitter community. I don't know if it will happen since it will presumably require cooperation from twitter but I know other plurk users would appreciate that too.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:08:44 -0000

That's fine advice. There's a lot of interesting webby stuff out there. As I adopt services, I also consider my exit strategy. "If this fails -- what's the backup?" It *will* fail.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Dave Atkins — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:03:56 -0000

The failures of twitter are healthy reminders that as much as we might come to rely on these social media tools, we are not really "customers" of twitter and they don't owe us anything. Use it while it works, then use the next thing. Develop "relationships" in more than one media channel and cultivate the connections you care about. Don't use twitter or anything else alone as your rolodex. It could all be gone tomorrow and if that happens, we'll say, it was fun while it lasted.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:16:25 -0000

I'm no longer on Twitter, emjayess.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:52:34 -0000

thank you Jack for the sensible response to this community misconception. That might ahve been the case very early on but it changed into a numbers game the moment that people like Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis joined and suddenly it became how many people were following you. To be fair to Robert though he has said that it is important that it flows both ways. But you look at any on the leaders on Twitter and their follwers to following ratio and it becomes clear that it is about the numbers and this attitude then trickle down.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Matt J. Sorenson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:52:30 -0000

Yeah! What Charpie ^ said! Lighten up, holy.

Folks like yourself and Winer, Criminy -- when twitter has an outage, it is like it's the end of the world or something... "ZOMG, my friends are GONE... and I can't even tweet it, panic!"

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:48:09 -0000

23 days to be exact as of today but there will come a point where they will be feature set and because of their arictecture things like SMS are going to be really hard to implement

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:45:51 -0000

Whether Twitter is a free service or not doesn't matter. what does matter is that they have created - or attempted to - a platform that is suppose to be able to handle anything thrown at it. We can't just turn around and say will you 100,000 people please get of Twitter for a day or two so we can burp this baby some more .. As filling it with love - oh please gag me with a spoon. .. We have filled Twitter with our continual data which if they get their heads out of their asses will make them all very rich and we get a silly mass communication tool in the process .. whoopee ...

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:40:10 -0000

agreed Jason

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:39:29 -0000

but when those technical problems are a continual event that even brings about a whole new phrasology for it you have to start questioning the foundation on which this new method of communication is built. Don't get me wrong I truly believe that what Twitter has shown us is that we do indeed need a super simple method of mass communication but that isn't going to fall to its knees every other day.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:35:41 -0000

oh give it a rest .. this is a free frikken service that in light of the real world means squat. Even trying to equate our discussions about the failings of Twitter with things like homelessness of genocide in Darfur is nothing short of facitous.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

StevenHodson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:33:00 -0000

excuse for interrupting for one second but just how is Twitter even considered to be journaling .. note passing like teenagers in class maybe but it is far from being a method of journalling.

Twitter is not healthy as we see every couple of days when something else goes wrong but is typically attributed to database problems. The whole system is a database nightmare that for some reason they haven't been able to fix yet.

And while I might suggest that Chris' headline was a bit extreme Twitter has given us the users any reason not to be pessimistic. Maybe the time has come for you to take off your rose colored glasses and accept the fact that Twitter is a cesspool of problems living off of VC money and without a business plan in sight.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:07:41 -0000

You mean I can't "pout" on my own website? How strange.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

charpie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:01:18 -0000

Ha! Ok, and I'll tweet about it, too.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Chris Baskind — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:29:44 -0000

You should clearly have a nice, soothing cup of tea. My point is that sites which feature user-created content aren't giving us anything for free. Their value is in the user base.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Enkerli — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:27:36 -0000

Some of us are actually taking bets as to what will happen with microblogging. My own guess is that it will become distributed (as per Laconi.ca's OpenMicroBlogging) while, at the same time, it will be integrated in other services (such as non-micro blogging platforms like WordPress or in social networking services like OpenSocial).
Still, we all seem to be agreed on the fact that the very idea of microblogging is here to stay.
Should be fun. Whether Twitter completely dies or just falls out of the radar.

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

charpie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:53:28 -0000

So, is this post because your pissed you haven't received payment for "tirelessly creating content?" Wow, Chris, you act as if it's a chore to enter in something less than 140 characters. If it is, THEN DON'T DO IT. Nobody is forcing you to enter information. It's by choice. Some people "tweet" 50 times a day, some "tweet" once every 50 days. You act as if it is a weight on your shoulders. If it is, then it's been brought upon by you and only you.

Sorry you didn't get monetary benefits from all your 'hard' work creating all the content for Twitter. Too bad you can't put value in something that's just plain positive. BTW, have you been getting paid from Facebook, Plurk, FriendFeed, etc.? Why shouldn't Twitter benefit from our participation? They're the one's tirelessly working to keep the system running smoothly. They're the ones putting in the real work to keeping a system up that's FREE and became enormously popular faster than they'd expected.

Tell me Chris, if someone came up with a cure for cancer, would you rat on them if they couldn't get it out fast enough? Would you also rat on them for not paying you because perhaps you wrote a column on how great the cure is and 'tirelessly' created stories upon stories about how great it is?