Re:Why Google or Yahoo should buy Twitter.
by prospero on Friday November 14, 2008 @06:12PM
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Twitter offers a potentially superior signal to noise ratio than blog content
Does anyone agree with this? I don't think brevity implies a greater density of information; often it means there's none at all.
There's no context to real-time information, no opportunity for its audience to either discuss or ignore it, and therefore no way to judge its relevance. The author seems to feel that the sheer newness of a Twitter feed guarantees its importance, but I think the chances of 140 characters written five minutes ago being more relevant than the topmost Google result is close to nil.
Re:Why Google or Yahoo should buy Twitter.
by danielrhodes on Friday November 14, 2008 @07:56PM
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I don't think it has anything to do with SN ratio, but attention. Twitter gets quite a bit of time from each person a month, and therefore it is a valuable service.
Re:Why Google or Yahoo should buy Twitter.
by foulmouthboy on Friday November 14, 2008 @06:59PM
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I would think Yahoo is having enough trouble with their own business model. To me, it wouldn't make sense to take on something that's, so far, been almost impossible to monetize.
Re:Why Google or Yahoo should buy Twitter.
by crabapple on Friday November 14, 2008 @06:57PM
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where is uncov dude when you need him? twitter is another example of a service that is slavishly adored by a microaudience but means nothing to 99.999% of the rest of the world and NEVER WILL. frankly yahoo would make more money acquiring dear abbey, fantasy badminton or more outlandish horoscopes.
Does anyone agree with this? I don't think brevity implies a greater density of information; often it means there's none at all.
There's no context to real-time information, no opportunity for its audience to either discuss or ignore it, and therefore no way to judge its relevance. The author seems to feel that the sheer newness of a Twitter feed guarantees its importance, but I think the chances of 140 characters written five minutes ago being more relevant than the topmost Google result is close to nil.
does twitter hold any patents? i read a while back that software patents don't apply unless they are somehow linked to hardware.