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Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk by axod on Thursday October 22, 2009 @05:03AM (#896411)
I think it does rather remain to be seen if Twitter is a fad, or a sustainable long term business.

The value is in the community, which could be lured onto something else pretty quickly.

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Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk by marknutter on Thursday October 22, 2009 @08:53AM (#896611)
> The value is in the community, which could be lured onto something else pretty quickly.

Tell that to the MS Bing folks. Luring people can be more difficult than you might think.

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Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk by axod on Thursday October 22, 2009 @09:45AM (#896693)
MS Bing have a truly awful brand. Widely detested and associated with crashing computers.

I agree it's difficult for one person to lure a community, just as it's difficult for any one person to win the lottery. But the probability that someone will win the lotto is very close to 1.

I don't think twitter has a large amount of lockin yet.

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Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk by elblanco on Thursday October 22, 2009 @03:37PM (#897490)
They only retain about 40% of their users. I haven't seen any figures on how long those 40% stick around either.
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Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk by percept on Thursday October 22, 2009 @06:59AM (#896495)
What he said ^^.

What's the next trend going to be? I'd guess something mobile (though Twitter already has short messaging covered).

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