Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol

Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by Spooky23 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:12PM (#12888751)

Twitter was too busy navel gazing and pushing PR about how they had the ability to incite revolutions.

They were afraid to grow beyond tweets. In life you need to grow or die. Ten years from now, they'll be fondly remembered as the AOL Instant Messenger of the 2010s.

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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by zatkin on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:54AM (#12889095)

Infinite growth is infeasible. Perhaps Twitter will be one of the few tech companies that will stabilize. Or get killed by a competitor.

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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by enraged_camel on Monday November 07, 2016 @03:52AM (#12889708)

>>In life you need to grow or die.

Says who? Plenty of businesses reach a certain size and maintain healthy levels of profitability over the long term.

"Grow or die" only holds true if you receive venture capital.

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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by Spooky23 on Monday November 07, 2016 @08:31AM (#12890827)

Not just grow in terms of dollars, grow in function and purpose.

If someone knocked you on the head in 2011 and you woke up today and logged into Twitter, you'd find that little has changed.

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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by nbb on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:17AM (#12891686)

So what?

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Re:Twitter Could Have Become a Protocol by treehau5 on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:16AM (#12892174)

I think that is being unfair to AIM, which was vastly more useful at the time.

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