Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk
by cookiecaper on Thursday October 22, 2009 @09:46AM
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Facebook is what really brought the concept of aggregation to the masses; it's essentially an aggregator of your friends' lives.
Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk
by marknutter on Thursday October 22, 2009 @09:56AM
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I'll agree with that, but I would say Twitter is the better example being that it's much more open than Facebook (no friend requests required).
Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk
by elblanco on Thursday October 22, 2009 @03:36PM
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If only there was some technology....that would....aggregate the blogs and news sites I'm interested in....and display it...perhaps in a reader like format....using some kind of standardized syndication service that's easy peasy to setup....and then, when I see something I like....it has enough content in it to be useful....
sigh
Perhaps Google will figure it out someday.
Re:Do you want to work at Twitter? - Twitter Development Talk
by marknutter on Thursday October 22, 2009 @10:25PM
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Ask your mom if she knows what RSS is. Then ask her if she's heard of Twitter.
I'll spare you the equally long winded rebuttal with my very simple observation about Twitter: it has brought RSS to the masses; a concept that was very useful to tech-savvy people but very nebulous and confusing to non-tech-savvy people.
That, and you should try http://search.twitter.com sometime. I assume that you haven't because I somehow doubt you'd hate Twitter so much had you.