ducuboy

This is so annoying, I know..

But people just love to debate whether Twitter is alive, dying, or already dead, so I figured they could use a common space to talk about it.

Twitter is dead, long live Twitter! Cheers, @ducu

Help others?

I'm looking for help on my side project, dev/marketing, probably someone like you. Check my about and ping me if interested. Maybe a fresh project that you find interesting would make it easier to get back to work. Good luck.

I like the notion of organic web.

But the parallel between food and web in terms of consumption doesn't stand. The currency for food is money and organic food is more expensive, while the currency for web is generally time spent, and so the junk web is more expensive.

And no, we should not regulate either. Just promote the more valuable and healthier options. By the way, besides tools such as Freedom which only reduce the intake of junk web, what services do you think would fit in the category of organic web?

Oh yes sure, Svven doesn't post tweets for you or anything like that.

Thanks for pointing this out, I'm thinking about changing the Twitter app settings to read-only. All it does is parse your home timeline to get the tweets so read-only is enough for Svven.

Totally agree on Facebook, but Twitter is much more valuable than the ephemeral tweets.

I think the difference between the two comes from the nature of user relationships. While on Facebook it had to be reciprocal (following was added later and it's not used much), on Twitter the user relationships can be one way. That makes all the difference. This is why on Facebook the user relationships are just replicas of real-life relationships, which was great for user acquisition but it's also a huge limitation that Facebook can't get past. On Twitter on the other hand anyone can follow anyone and while user acquisition is more difficult, it opens up the world and gives a lot of opportunity for new user relationships. Because of this Twitter is the best social network we have so far.

Wow I'm really flattered!

And also a little worried given your description of some of your students :P But sure, it should be interesting, also because Svven is built in Python and I see this is what you teach.

I just followed you on Twitter, I'm @ducu, let's DM there.

Recent News is quite interesting. How is it different from Prismatic?