[WebDNA] [OT] Twitter/Facebook (was: talklist & twitter)
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2009
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 102947
interpreted = N
texte = [unsolicited_commentary]I have to say that I agree with that statement to some degree...fundament=ally, I don't "get"=20twitter. I just can't see the value of sending traffic from my website to= another one where people=20post 140 chars about what they had for breakfast or how big that new boil= is, and in fact i find=20most of it to be downright inane. I almost never post on the site and i r=ead other people's posts=20even less. My clients, however, really want to get onboard, and I am char=ging them for that, so I=20guess in that sense it's good for me, but I pretty much expect them to as=k me to quietly remove=20the twitter stuff from their sites next year at about this time. Maybe I'=m just old-school.Facebook on the other hand has turned out to be pretty cool for me from a= personal standpoint.=20Like twitter, I hardly ever post on my "wall" and if I do it's just snark=y nonsense, and I=20occasionally read other people's posts when I have time, but I have recon=nected with distant=20family, old friends and other people I've known (and liked) throughout my= life but lost touch with=20and as a result have had lunch with some of them and have made plans to s=ee others. Maybe some=20business may come from these connections, but that is not why I'm there.[/unsolicited_commentary][prediction]Facebook's new user feeds capability will be the end of twitter. By year'=s end this will be=20apparent, and by next summer twitter will go the way of myspace and class=mates.com[/prediction]Ok, story time is over. Back to work.-DanOn Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:46:11 -0500 Patrick McCormick
wrote:> Or maybe ahead of the fad evaporation curve...
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[unsolicited_commentary]I have to say that I agree with that statement to some degree...fundament=ally, I don't "get"=20twitter. I just can't see the value of sending traffic from my website to= another one where people=20post 140 chars about what they had for breakfast or how big that new boil= is, and in fact i find=20most of it to be downright inane. I almost never post on the site and i r=ead other people's posts=20even less. My clients, however, really want to get onboard, and I am char=ging them for that, so I=20guess in that sense it's good for me, but I pretty much expect them to as=k me to quietly remove=20the twitter stuff from their sites next year at about this time. Maybe I'=m just old-school.Facebook on the other hand has turned out to be pretty cool for me from a= personal standpoint.=20Like twitter, I hardly ever post on my "wall" and if I do it's just snark=y nonsense, and I=20occasionally read other people's posts when I have time, but I have recon=nected with distant=20family, old friends and other people I've known (and liked) throughout my= life but lost touch with=20and as a result have had lunch with some of them and have made plans to s=ee others. Maybe some=20business may come from these connections, but that is not why I'm there.[/unsolicited_commentary][prediction]Facebook's new user feeds capability will be the end of twitter. By year'=s end this will be=20apparent, and by next summer twitter will go the way of myspace and class=mates.com[/prediction]Ok, story time is over. Back to work.-DanOn Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:46:11 -0500 Patrick McCormick wrote:> Or maybe ahead of the fad evaporation curve...
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