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Oblivious to Obvious (Corp)

One thing that always cracks me up is the disconnect between the tech world and the other 99.9% of the country. My favorite example of this is Twitter. All you hear inside the black box is how great Twitter is. People in The Valley actually consider it a source of news. If you consider “OMG, Charlton Heston just died!” or “Going to the gym.” news, then yeah, it’s the new CNN. But to anyone who doesn’t generally breathe through their mouth it’s just a bunch of Facebook status updates.

Also, that’s ignoring the fact that any time something newsworthy does happen, Twitter just stops working. I’m mystified as to what the folks over there do all day. I’ve been using that site for almost a year now, and if they’ve launched one new feature in that time, I couldn’t tell you what it is. And yet it still goes down whenever Barack Obama sneezes.

What is that site, 20 lines of code? Fix it already.

Mike Arrington finds Twitter indispensable, and I can see that given his job. But the mainstream is still oblivious, and it’s going to stay that way. If you want to know why, try explaining Twitter to your dad. Hell, try explaining it to your wife or girlfriend. Oh wait, I forgot, you’re in the tech industry.

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8 Responses to “Oblivious to Obvious (Corp)”

  1. RaviMohan Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Brilliant !!

  2. RaviMohan Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Brilliant !!

  3. Thiago Guerra Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Very good one! I'm in the tech business and I can't even convince myself to use it kkkk

  4. aditya Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Great post! Short and sweet! Seriously, I dont know what these guys are doing. Compared to them, FriendFeed rocks because of their insanely smooth execution! FriendFeed should acquire Twitter :)

  5. jeremystein Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 9:28 am

    i have to disagree with you

    an easy way to explain twitter: http://jeremystein.net/post/32483691
    its also the new aim: http://jeremystein.net/post/27670247

  6. Suleman Ali Says:
    April 23, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Haha! Awesome!

  7. Tarun Says:
    April 24, 2008 at 9:18 am

    I thought I'd get hooked to Twitter when I started using it….but thats not how it panned out.

    I guess we could use the recent instance of the american getting caught in Egypt using Twitter to inform everybody to bail himself out as a good example of why or how Twitter could be useful.

  8. Chris Says:
    April 29, 2008 at 11:16 am

    I don't get twitter either, at least as the next big thing. But hey – they got funded, despite no real revenue model.

    Twitter in with opensocial, in concept, would at least be a facebook alternative.

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