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We Were So Wrong About Twitter

Source: louisgray.com

Apr 20, 2009

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By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)

It feels like ages ago, but it was only four months ago when the extended louisgray.com team debated whether Twitter would go mainstream. Did we underestimate Twitter and its team? No. We did not foresee who would be using it. What did we think was needed for Twitter to hit the mainstream? Here are some examples of what we were thinking:

It needs a lot of filtering and searching.
There is too much noise for most people.
It is too public, and it only fits a small niche of the population.
Some people may just not 'get it'.
Twitter will not go mainstream until another service appears that makes Twitter a cellphone SMS gateway.
It still lacks the features needed to go mainstream, video, images etc.
The combination of other services (Facebook, FriendFeed, Yammer, etc.) will steal Twitter's thunder and leave it behind.

Why were we so wrong? Basically, we are a bunch of early adopters who were thinking that people would be using it in the same manner as we were. We thought people would be searching for information, or would w ...Read the full article

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Jasongoldberg,

Apr 20, 2009

I find this funny as I was one of the first to see that Twitter's simplicity made it more google to friendfeed's excel.