Comments on: Has Twitter jumped the shark?

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By: Colleen Krutewicz

Colleen Krutewicz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:25:27 +0000

I’m staying loyal to Twitter. I find the outages to be a minor annoyance at this point and I too hope Twitter can fix the problem(s); and I second Jason’s suggestion, please don’t call it Twitter 2.0.

By: Joe Holst

Joe Holst — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:42:48 +0000

There are a lot of nice features in Plurk (the timeline, the UI, support for images and youtube videos) but the one thing I hear coming from the buzz about plurk is it’s likeness to Myspace. On a certain level I can see that, with some of the “clique” terminology and horrible copy writing. Who knows, it may be too early to tell.

Personally I’m fine with Twitter as long as they are able to keep the down time to a minimum. I feel like I owe it to them to stick it out and give them a chance to make improvements. You’ve probably read this but here is an interesting article on Twitter’s outages: http://tinyurl.com/6athqc How they’ve been able to survive with a single MySQL server is a modern miracle.

Are you planning on creating an account? Staying with Twitter? I’d be interested to know. I’d like to see some stats on the number of Twitter users that made the switch to plurk in the last few days.

By: Jason Butler

Jason Butler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:58:55 +0000

I think one of the main issues with other services is that they try to be twitter++. I think Twitter has become so popular because it does what it does, and only what it does. Prior to these reliability issues, it did it very well too. If there was an exact clone of Twitter, or if it became some kind of official protocol that could be reused without reinventing the wheel, I think it would still rule over those other services.

What’s the programming adage? Create discrete functions and string them together instead of massive functions that do everything? Something like that? Twitter fulfills a very specific need without the other frills (although the timeline is cool on Plurk). I too hope they can fix their reliability issues before people begin to bail. But all of our eyes have been opened to this form of communication, so if Twitter dies, then someone WILL come out with Twitter 2.0, although I pray they use another name instead!

By: Matt Galligan

Matt Galligan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:57:28 +0000

Agreed Don. What we need is not another Twitter, but a better, mores table existing Twitter.

The problem with Plurk, Pownce, FriendFeed and the like are that they weren’t developed as a messaging service (exactly the reason that Twitter is having scaling issues right now). I think Twitter is much less the virtual water cooler, it’s something much different.

And the truth is, if Twitter took a dive, most of the conversations that exist on FriendFeed right now wouldn’t continue…because a lot of the conversation is generated from Twitter…

Good post. You should look into Intense Debate or Disqus as a comment replacement system. They’re both pretty awesome and will have some wicked Socialthing! integration really soon…