Comments on: Twitter Fatigue: Rumors of Twitter’s Demise May Not Be Greatly Exaggerated

By: Vidar Andersen

Vidar Andersen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:44:03 +0000

I disagree with your argumentation. If you are displeased with your own usage and experience of and with a free service like twitter, please be professional enough to refrain from projecting your personal problems on the service. Automatic failure ensues trying to apply relations to external additional periferal 3rd party twitter apps and their proponents and/or PR/Marketing idiots rants on twitter trends. On twitter you chose whom to follow or drop. Twitter is not mail so drop that comparison too. If you are having propems coping, chance is that YOU are doing it wrong. Twitter is currently a service AND a company. Not necessarily so for all time. See my comments on Dave Winer’s post http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/04/02/thereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHer.html for my stance.

By: lizriz

lizriz — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:34:14 +0000

Number one reason I’m not big into Twitter: If I have to go looking for other applications to successfully use an application, well, that’s just absurd and I don’t have the time or the inclination. I don’t have to use any other applications to use Facebook. I may choose to use other applications on Facebook, but if I do absolutely nothing but what’s already there to do, it works just fine and I enjoy it.

When Twitter fully integrates – on the Twitter site itself – some of these things I hear people use, then maybe I’ll be more interested.

By: Neal F

Neal F — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:35:04 +0000

Nice post (bit lengthy) only managed to read half – will return to it later. Twitter’s main issue is that in providing a platform for rule by the masses, with its development & evolution driven by the great unwashed, we will end up with an unusable mess. I love the 2.0 ideology of the world being built by the people according to their constantly changing collective or individual whims and desires. Sad fact is though, we need rules. We need to be controlled. Anarchy = Destruction (ultimately)

BTW — good to see the correct spelling of Neal

cheers,
Neal

By: Anuj Seth - Twitdom

Anuj Seth - Twitdom — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:12:29 +0000

Thanks once again for mentioning Twitdom.com in the article.

Its highly appreciated!

By: Jared O'Toole

Jared O'Toole — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:32:36 +0000

Amazing post. And great links to go with it.

I understand where your coming from and I do believe that twitter needs to make changes to survive. The most interesting point was about how intolerant new users will be of outages and slow service, unlike the early adapters. That’s a huge problem for twitter because people who don’t get it will surely never be back if the site is down when they try it.

By: Butch

Butch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:27:23 +0000

Seems to me that providing a stable base platform will keep twitter busy enough as it continues to grow, but I like your idea of style guidelines and a directory of “recommended” tools that follow those rules. Clearly, more intelligent filtering is crucial if this is going to interest more than just the information-addicts for the long term. Good post.

By: Graham Jones - Internet Psychologist

Graham Jones - Internet Psychologist — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:03:00 +0000

This is an excellent article with some great insight. I think Twitter now has enough momentum to overcome any “evolutionary” issues – indeed that’s what happens with evolution, things adapt to their new environment. Twitter will change but it will change into what we want it to be as users. Facebook has already realised of late that it simply cannot change without the consent of its users. Twitter does face threats and issues as you suggest, but I suspect it will come out of this stronger than Facebook. And mobile phone companies need to worry most. Already people are using Twitter to replace SMS and when an audio version of Twitter arrives, why would you ever need to phone anyone to say “I’m on the train, home in half an hour”. The “bread and butter” of the income of the mobile phone industry is being taken away from them rapidly – and they are very slow to adapt to a new environment. I see a strong future for Twitter – at the expense of the mobile phone industry. Indeed, Twitter only needs to team up with Nokia or Motorola for a low cost phone that only receives/sends Tweets and audio tweets.

By: David Spinks

David Spinks — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:39:32 +0000

I really enjoyed this post. You touched on pretty much every issue I’ve found with twitter. I especially agree with the advanced filtering and threaded conversations points. I think these are two of the major issues that should be a first concern of twitter.

I’ve thought about these issues a number of times, that if twitter doesn’t start adding these seemingly obvious functionality updates, they will start to lost users to competitive applications once FT begins to settle in. I’ve heard on numerous occasions that people enjoy the interface of google’s Jaiku more than that of twitter.

Twitter has introduced to the mainstream an entirely new way of communicating that has proven to be extremely valuable and effective when compared to previous methods. As you explained very well, while that gives them market dominance for now, they will have to tend to these matters quickly before the early adopters find a more efficient service to communicate.

Dave

By: Terrence

Terrence — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:09:38 +0000

Last week I discovered Hootsuite.com. Discussions are easy to follow because they are threaded and it’s real easy to manage several Twitter accounts. I think it’s a great online-service and Twitter should get in touch with these people.

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:10:01 +0000

This its a hard theme, and its something that worry me becuase i dont realy know were its twitter going, and if its go were he are going whit all what he bring. unfortunaly we user in my case we juts have to sit and wait and dont confiden so much as we are doing on twitter.