Comments on: Twitter and the Power of Keeping Things Simple http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/ Tue, 21 May 2013 14:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AK http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244812 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:15:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244812 Anthony, I have found one: Advertize my soon-to-be-released iPhone app!!! So more generally, products/services advertising in a very interactive way. Twitter is a very good marketing tool when you think about it. You get to communicate with your customers and fans in real time. You get to know their opinion on what you sell them. The same could somewhat be said with Facebook groups, but not at the same extent. Clearly, that’s probably the only reason (aside from staying in contacts with friends and relatives) I’m using these tools.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244811 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:11:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244811 Thanks for the comment, Ricky — not sure something can be too simple. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one :-)

]]> By: Wolfgang Puck Bistro 900 Watt Food Processor – Item: 923-056 | Food Processor Mixer http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244810 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:41:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244810 [...] Twitter and the Power of Keeping Things Simple – GigaOM [...]

]]> By: Tuesday links: inflection points Abnormal Returns http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244809 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:09:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244809 [...] Twitter succeeded in large part by filling a niche and “keeping it simple.”  (GigaOM) [...]

]]> By: Anthony http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244808 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:53:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244808 Four years and I still can’t find a reason to use it. I guess I’m too busy living in the real world.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244807 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:49:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244807 That’s a fair point, Rolf — simplicity helped get the company to where it is, but the game changes to some extent when you have the kind of scale that Twitter does now.

]]> By: Ricky Ricardo http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244806 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:37:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244806 With all due respect Matthew. I disagree.

Twitter is not Simple. Twitter is Simplistic. (too simple)

That’s why newbees “dont get it” and dont use it.

]]> By: Rolf http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244805 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:00:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244805 (I really meant Twitter may find that it’s too ‘basic’)

]]> By: Rolf http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244804 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:58:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244804 While I am a fan of Twitter and agree with your analysis, I suspect that Twitter will have to significantly evolve or may suffer in the long-term from being too simple. When one compares the 10 billion total tweets milestone, with the 5 billion shared items/week on Facebook (generated by less than four times the user base), – and even when one considers that each photo is probably counted as one shared item – one must conclude that people find the Facebook sharing experience even simpler. It remains to be seen whether the gap filled by (sigh) Buzz (http://j.mp/bKrodE) or some other similar system proves to provide a more popular mix in the long term. It’s also interesting to note that there are still around 100 billion SMS sent per week.

References: http://bit.ly/amaPSe, http://bit.ly/ceED9T

]]> By: Andy http://gigaom.com/2010/03/22/twitter-and-the-power-of-keeping-things-simple/#comment-244803 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:36:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=107366#comment-244803 Twitter is a contraction of the two words, ‘Twit’ and ‘Witter’ and that is just you get: Twits wittering.

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