Comments on: On Twitter’s Flat-lined Growth

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By: Andrew Swenson

Andrew Swenson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:57:52 +0000

Scott,

Thanks for commenting here. You bring up some excellent points, especially that "For Twitter to go away, there has to be a massive shift of a person's network to some other platform (and that has to happen to a lot of networks)."

But what's interesting to me is that communities like Facebook and Twitter are centralized, private, and thus captive to private interests.

But what if we made an NEA (nobody owns it, everyone can use it, anyone can improve it) protocol like RSS to handle a Twitter/Tumblr like feed. (Doc Searls talks about this NEA protocol in his post "Beyond Social Media" - http://bit.ly/927IeN )

This would move the community out of the clutches of a private service like Twitter, decentralizing the network itself and ultimately providing a wide open resource for building and engaging community.

Okay, so it's tough to explain succinctly. Read Doc Searl's post and you'll get what I mean.

Thanks again,
Andrew

By: Andrew Swenson

Andrew Swenson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:57:52 +0000

By: Scott Hale

Scott Hale — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:39:34 +0000

I don't think you are wrong about a new medium coming to fill the Twitter void eventually, but I think that eventually is a bit further in the future than some imagine. During Twitter's major boom, there were a bunch of other sites that offered the exact same thing. In fact, they did it better. But Twitter won out because that's where all the people were. Scoble tried to help FriendFeed become the new Twitter because it had more upside…but it never got the people.

For Twitter to go away, there has to be a massive shift of a person's network to some other platform (and that has to happen to a lot of networks). The important part about that statement is that people will go where the network (or community) goes. So focus on the network/community/communication and you have nothing to worry about.

I'll jump on that “Foursquare is Dumb” train…for now. Once marketers start integrating, it will be useful for everybody and as you said, Andrew, we'll all wonder how we lived without out it

By: Andrew Swenson

Andrew Swenson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:51:13 +0000

Thanks Abby.

Is there such a thing as a communication platform with slow and steady growth?

I also think Foursquare is lame.

However, I'm predicting that in November, we'll both look back and say, "how did we live without Foursquare?!"

Sorry for the vision of apocalypse.

By: abbyannette

abbyannette — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:26:08 +0000

I like this post a lot. Perhaps it would have been better for all of us to sign up for a communication platform with slow and steady growth? Also, I think Foursquare is lame. But then again, isn't that what everyone thought about Twitter?