Comments on: Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg

By: e hyneman

e hyneman — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 02:02:10 +0000

I cannot find anything on the new twitter. Wanted to tell Obama to be VERY careful if making an hyneE manunscheduled stop at the DNC tonight.

By: Phil Simon

Phil Simon — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:17:27 +0000

The trend with Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google is to be more closed than open. To that end, I understand the decision to go a little more in the closed direction. Is it the right one? I have no idea.

Phil Simon
http://www.theageoftheplatform.com

By: Levi Smith

Levi Smith — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:47:58 +0000

I just wrote a post on how to get this back if you want using an IFTTT (If This Then That) recipe I whipped up: http://itswn.us/OWgipH

By: Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:57:38 +0000

A number of things happened to Digg. Yes, true, Digg management tried to leverage their user base for profit and appeal to corporate customers and advertisers, but they did it when the 2008 elections were ongoing and at the same time they also sold out to the hard left socialist movement. Almost overnight the Digg leadership let everyone know that they were on-board for Obama and instead of a balanced news base, Digg allowed itself to be controlled by the groups working for the Huffington Post, FiredogLake, and a half dozen other hard core leftist groups. Those seeking information in other categories other than politics, or down the middle and to the right in politics deserted Digg for more neutral places, Reddit for one. When _WE_ quit Digg, Digg turned even more socialist political interface until the cacophony from the phonies on the hard left was drowning out all other stories. Hahahaha, their algorithms quit working, and people were complaining that they were sick of politics! Hilarious….and as we all know, Digg never fully recovered. Boo Hoo…too bad, so sad. Does the Huffington Post still own Digg? Is Digg still a socialist hang out? Does anyone still go to Digg?

I have NOT been back to Digg once since deserting it at least four months before Obama was elected, having seen that the Digg management wanted to use the portal to turn everyone on to socialism and Obama.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:27:30 +0000

I don’t know why Myspace failed for other users, nor do I particularly care. When I couldn’t get logged in without suffering through Matt Damon and Friends political videos, I pulled out of Myspace altogether.

By: John E. Bredehoft

John E. Bredehoft — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:21:55 +0000

Perhaps Twitter does have competition. Let me provide an example.

Ever since the San Diego fires, my assumption has always been that if you want to learn about a breaking news story, Twitter is the place to go.

Last October, when I said as much, I was challenged by Paul Brocklehurst, who said:

“I would imagine much better coverage would take place for the ICS/Nexus Prime launch on Google+ than on Twitter. What does everyone else think?”

Since the launch was that very evening, I was able to compare the coverage of the launch on the two services. While Twitter had more comments, Google+ (which, if you’ll recall, is supposedly dead) had a number of comments at the time of the launch, and the comments that it had were more substantive.

http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2011/10/empo-tymshft-i-was-wrong-google-may.html

In short (heh), a service doesn’t have to be limited to 140 characters to compete with Twitter.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:41:04 +0000

What’s Digg? :)

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:31:46 +0000

Agree, Ashutosh — thanks for the comment.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:30:39 +0000

Thanks, Franklin.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:29:23 +0000

I think it’s dangerous to think that one has no competition — both MySpace and Digg thought that way, and I think it accelerated bad choices on their part.