Showing posts with label Online Communities. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

In The Same Frame With Alexa Von Tobel

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Monday, March 03, 2014

Twitter Need Not Be Facebook To Do Well

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It Turns Out Twitter’s Not for Everyone

Twitter need not be a mainstream product used by half of humanity to do really well as a business. Instead of trying to imitate Facebook (O, we also show you pictures in your stream!) Twitter could just deepen the relationship it has with its users.

If Google can help me search through the web, Twitter should at least be able to help me search through all tweets that rest on Twitter's servers. But it does not do that. That one feature alone would take Twitter into the stratosphere. I might not need a Dropbox. Twitter would be my Dropbox for the most part. Most stuff I like to save come in the form of URLs.

If you were to force me to pick between Facebook and Twitter - and I am glad you don't - I would pick Twitter.

So if you can be so well positioned for both search and social, and you were mobile before mobile became mobile, what gives? Beats me.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Facebook Graph Search: The Alternative View

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At this blog I have asked for something like the Facebook Graph Search for years now. So I guess I fall in the camp that says it is a great thing. I have not used it yet myself, but I do think it is a great new addition to the Facebook experience. I want a similarly robust search feature for Twitter. And that is also a noise I have been making at this blog for years.

But here's an alternate view.

Facebook Graph Search Is Humorless, Creepy And Doomed To Disappoint

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Facebook's Graph Search: A Long Time Coming

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Twitter's Growth Rate Accelerating?


They say that about the universe. Not only is it expanding, the rate at which it is expanding is accelerating.

Twitter Passes 200M Monthly Active Users, A 42% Increase Over 9 Months

This does not surprise me. Twitter can come across as geeky. But once you know how to use it, it is actually more delightful than Facebook. I am glad I am not being forced, but if you were to force me to pick between the two, I'd pick Twitter.

But the experience can be simplified further. And photo filters on Twitter would be a big hit, I think. One huge blind spot Instagram has is it is not on the web.

I have not yet joined Instagram because my first smartphone is still on its way. But if Twitter filters show up I might not even join Instagram. Except that I am on Facebook, and if there is closer integration I might have joined by default.

An Hour Spent On Twitter
Twitter Was Great On Election Night
If You Are Twitter
No, Biz, Twitter Has Real Issues

I still don't understand why I can't access all my tweets, why all my tweets don't show up in Google search results, why I can't embed multiple tweets at once. Why can't I search through all tweets, mine and that of others?

Twitter, FourSquare: Mobile Web Thingies
Twitter Is Massively Complex
User Friendly Twitter? Get Out Of Town
Goal: A Billion People On Twitter
Twitter At Five: Not Spitting Out Well
Twitter: The Obvious Missing Features
Twitter: Too Complex

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