The best place to be is where people either love you or hate you. Not so great in inter-personal relationships but it’s super when you’ve got a product that you want people to use and maybe buy.
WordPress is there. There’s a vocal group of WordPress haters out there, but we’ve worked hard over a number of years to get to that level of hatred. It hasn’t been easy. On the other hand even more people like using WordPress. Thankfully someone would care if WordPress disappeared in the morning.
That’s why I’m envious of Twitter. In the course of a few months they’ve gone from being a darling of the blogging community to the nemesis of all things good and proper.
I predict that when teenagers discover Twitter the increase in txt speak will put off everyone else. Not that it will matter at that stage. Twitter will go on to become a global teen phenomenon much like myspace or bebo. Oh how we’ll gnash our teeth then. The negative feedback now won’t be anything like it will be later on! “Proper bloggers” might just ignore it but I doubt it. We They need something to bitch about and it’s an easy target!
I signed up there a few days ago but I’ve since turned off sms notifications and haven’t looked at my profile page in a while. If anyone mentions me I’ll know about it. Oh isn’t RSS cool?
3 Comments
paul (8 comments.) on March 16, 2007 at 8:46 am.
I think Twitter is a bit TMI (too much information) plus who wants to pay for all these text messages ?
I haven’t yet and don’t plan on subscribing to Twitter. I guess the fact that I am not a teen probably puts me out of their target audience anyway.
Suhaimi (2 comments.) on March 17, 2007 at 8:49 am.
I envy the publicity the site generate but I really don’t understand why people want to tell others what they are doing ?
Are we close to the time when things like the Truman Show is a norm?
Lloyd Budd (22 comments.) on March 27, 2007 at 6:45 pm.
For me there is just something missing from the user experience of Twitter… I can’t put my finger on it.