Comments on: Is Twitter.com a Thing Of The Past Already? http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nSathees http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8856 nSathees Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:49:43 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8856 Twitter and FB are open virus. Twitter and FB are open virus.

]]> By: Stephen Douglas http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8852 Stephen Douglas Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:22:36 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8852 Jamz, I agree with you. Anyone interested, please see my followup response, and details about my experience with Twitter (with credit back to Jamz) for the article, on my blog at http://www.successclick.com. I usually move more detailed responses to my blog, and for sure I can't put them on Twitter. lol Great article, Jamz. Jamz, I agree with you.

Anyone interested, please see my followup response, and details about my experience with Twitter (with credit back to Jamz) for the article, on my blog at http://www.successclick.com. I usually move more detailed responses to my blog, and for sure I can’t put them on Twitter. lol

Great article, Jamz.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8850 Kevin Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:09:20 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8850 99% of the tweets on Twitter are idiotic and I doubt anyone is even reading them. Yesterday the tweets about Balloon Boy peaked at 30,000 per minute. All saying the same things. It can be useful, but only in a limited amount of ways and you have to know what you're doing. Facebook is much more well structured and stronger for networking and marketing. 99% of the tweets on Twitter are idiotic and I doubt anyone is even reading them.

Yesterday the tweets about Balloon Boy peaked at 30,000 per minute. All saying the same things.

It can be useful, but only in a limited amount of ways and you have to know what you’re doing.

Facebook is much more well structured and stronger for networking and marketing.

]]> By: Mark Fulton http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8848 Mark Fulton Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:57:21 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8848 Just a note on Twitter traffic.. it is only a fraction of the actual usage. Because of the open API there are people not even visiting Twitter.com but still active: Top 100 Twitter app by usage today: http://twitstat.com/twitterclientusers.html Note that "Web" use accounts for only 20%. Just a note on Twitter traffic.. it is only a fraction of the actual usage. Because of the open API there are people not even visiting Twitter.com but still active:

Top 100 Twitter app by usage today:
http://twitstat.com/twitterclientusers.html

Note that “Web” use accounts for only 20%.

]]> By: Jon http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8846 Jon Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:12:20 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8846 Twitter and other social services sites are just platforms to waste time and platforms for spammers to sell to other spammers. Twitter and other social services sites are just platforms to waste time and platforms for spammers to sell to other spammers.

]]> By: Jamie Zoch http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8843 Jamie Zoch Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:37:49 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8843 @Fred, I never said they were "Dead". I said "I think Twitter is going to lose popularity and slowly fade into the sunset unless a lot of positive changes take place." Since traffic has flattened, which I think is because of many of the problems I stated, unless something changes.. the site will continue to stay flat and even go down in users. If you though I meant "slowly fad into the sunset unless a lot of positive changes take place" meant it was "Dead", that is not the case. A site with Millions of month unique visitors can not be "dead". ~ I have seen numbers in the past (I didn't look for them again) but I thought it said some 5% of twitter users make up the majority of the activity on the site. @Fred,
I never said they were “Dead”. I said “I think Twitter is going to lose popularity and slowly fade into the sunset unless a lot of positive changes take place.” Since traffic has flattened, which I think is because of many of the problems I stated, unless something changes.. the site will continue to stay flat and even go down in users. If you though I meant “slowly fad into the sunset unless a lot of positive changes take place” meant it was “Dead”, that is not the case. A site with Millions of month unique visitors can not be “dead”.
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I have seen numbers in the past (I didn’t look for them again) but I thought it said some 5% of twitter users make up the majority of the activity on the site.

]]> By: Fred http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8842 Fred Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:21:27 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8842 Their traffic has fallen flat after an explosive growth over the past year. So that means the service is dead? Are you kidding me? And dcmike, the fact that you compare Twitter to Myspace is the first indication that you have zero knowledge of anything to do with social media. Stick to parking pages. Their traffic has fallen flat after an explosive growth over the past year. So that means the service is dead? Are you kidding me? And dcmike, the fact that you compare Twitter to Myspace is the first indication that you have zero knowledge of anything to do with social media. Stick to parking pages.

]]> By: Jamie Zoch http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8840 Jamie Zoch Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:46:16 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8840 @Mark, Thanks for the link. I do heavily find Twitter useful and you can really make money using it but getting tweets about all the blah blah making money, how to get x amount of followers is getting old. It was just interesting to see traffic numbers flat for several months now. Then you hear celebs saying they are done with twitter etc. I think several things are pointing to traffic numbers going down.. but again, only time will tell. @Mark,
Thanks for the link. I do heavily find Twitter useful and you can really make money using it but getting tweets about all the blah blah making money, how to get x amount of followers is getting old. It was just interesting to see traffic numbers flat for several months now. Then you hear celebs saying they are done with twitter etc. I think several things are pointing to traffic numbers going down.. but again, only time will tell.

]]> By: dcmike77 http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8839 dcmike77 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:42:25 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8839 Twitter is just a fad. Who uses myspace anymore? Or what about paging? Those were all cool at one time not anymore. Google Wave is coming and will blow twitter out of the water. Twitter is just a fad. Who uses myspace anymore? Or what about paging? Those were all cool at one time not anymore.

Google Wave is coming and will blow twitter out of the water.

]]> By: Jamie Zoch http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8838 Jamie Zoch Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:41:37 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8838 @Anthony, I think FB changed to a more Twitter approach with it's last update. As for an app, I have no clue because I do not use my phone on the net.. which means I know very little about apps. :) @Anthony,
I think FB changed to a more Twitter approach with it’s last update. As for an app, I have no clue because I do not use my phone on the net.. which means I know very little about apps. :)

]]> By: Domain Report http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8834 Domain Report Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:24:51 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8834 I think Twitter is becoming a fixture on the internet. Many websites, newspapers, magazines, tv newscasts and businesses have twitter accounts to keep in touch with their followers - and they actively promote their accounts. It's a great business tool to give quick updates and news to a group of people who are interested in what you have. Twitter has had explosive growth so it's bound to slow down somewhat, but it will keep growing. Twitter offers something MySpace and Facebook don't. And I think the search function of Twitter will be big - getting real time news and feedback about events from millions of users - that is a great feature. I think Twitter is becoming a fixture on the internet. Many websites, newspapers, magazines, tv newscasts and businesses have twitter accounts to keep in touch with their followers – and they actively promote their accounts. It’s a great business tool to give quick updates and news to a group of people who are interested in what you have. Twitter has had explosive growth so it’s bound to slow down somewhat, but it will keep growing. Twitter offers something MySpace and Facebook don’t. And I think the search function of Twitter will be big – getting real time news and feedback about events from millions of users – that is a great feature.

]]> By: Jason at GoDrops.com http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8833 Jason at GoDrops.com Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:24:10 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8833 Twitter is awesome! Go where the people are! Learn how to use it and to your advantage and it will pay you back... e.g. I've opened up a chat for only my twitter friends (people I follow) at http://godrops.com/chat There are ways to cut down on spam, it all goes down to how 'trust' is setup. With twitter it's followers. Use it or don't, twitter and things like it are here to stay... P.S. @Jamie, I like how you categorize (prefix) your tweets =) Twitter is awesome! Go where the people are! Learn how to use it and to your advantage and it will pay you back… e.g. I’ve opened up a chat for only my twitter friends (people I follow) at http://godrops.com/chat

There are ways to cut down on spam, it all goes down to how ‘trust’ is setup. With twitter it’s followers. Use it or don’t, twitter and things like it are here to stay…

P.S. @Jamie, I like how you categorize (prefix) your tweets =)

]]> By: Jamie Zoch http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8832 Jamie Zoch Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:18:59 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8832 @Fred, 50 million a day? Twitter doesn't even get 25 Million unique visitors a Month. Here is a TechCrunch article recently about numbers going flat for Twitter. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/as-facebook-nears-100m-u-s-visitors-twitter-falls-further-behind-in-the-rear-view-mirror/ @Fred,
50 million a day? Twitter doesn’t even get 25 Million unique visitors a Month. Here is a TechCrunch article recently about numbers going flat for Twitter. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/as-facebook-nears-100m-u-s-visitors-twitter-falls-further-behind-in-the-rear-view-mirror/

]]> By: Anthony http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8831 Anthony Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:17:49 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8831 Jamie ... Here's the question. What's most likely to happen ? Facebook adding a Twitter like app ? or Twitter becoming a Facebook ? Jamie … Here’s the question.

What’s most likely to happen ?

Facebook adding a Twitter like app ?

or Twitter becoming a Facebook ?

]]> By: Mark Fulton http://www.dotweekly.com/is-twitter-com-a-thing-of-the-past-already/#comment-8828 Mark Fulton Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:27:49 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2712#comment-8828 Sorry guys, Twitter isn't going anywhere.. might as well make the most of it. Great for networking, great for business, why even compare it with FB? Any site getting downtime obviously is ridiculously popular... why would they become thing of the past? There are tools to fix alot of things you mentioned. Follow directions here to opt out of auto DMs: http://twitter.com/optmeout Many spam block tools available and Twitter even implemented a prominent SPAM link right next to the follow/unfollow links just 2 days ago... give it some time, I think it will stomp out 90% of spam. Sorry guys, Twitter isn’t going anywhere.. might as well make the most of it. Great for networking, great for business, why even compare it with FB?

Any site getting downtime obviously is ridiculously popular… why would they become thing of the past?

There are tools to fix alot of things you mentioned. Follow directions here to opt out of auto DMs:
http://twitter.com/optmeout

Many spam block tools available and Twitter even implemented a prominent SPAM link right next to the follow/unfollow links just 2 days ago… give it some time, I think it will stomp out 90% of spam.

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