I still can’t wrap my head around Twitter.
But, I listen to a lot of comedy podcasts and everyone on them has a twitter account for fans to follow.
Are you saying that sufficient market penetration will prevent Twitter from demise if something better comes along? Wouldn’t MySpace contradict that, or didn’t MySpace have enough market presence?
Too bad the SDMB doesn’t allow you to put up flash animations, a profile song and a seizure-inducing background, so as to properly commemorate this moment.
Don’t be all so sure about Facebook sticking around as number one forever.
One of my students at college has an entirely new concept, and already lined up some investors, for something that is far and away better! My jaw dropped when I heard him explain his vision!
And if I know somebody who has a better idea, I can guarantee you, there are others out there with even better ideas.
I can remember when GeoCities was the end-all of Internet connectivity - how could anything get better than that?
The purchase of MySpace is to rebrand it. Right now, it’s still being used by bands to spread their music and get noticed. That’s going to expand to more forms of media, while moving away from the generalized social networking of Facebook.
Google just launched this other thing, Google +. Like a couple days ago.
So far my reactions to it is…
- “Dammit this stupid thing is buggy” (but also beta, so nbd)
- “I am awesome at Facebook an so are my friends. I don’t have time for both.”
- “I don’t want my Google shit tied to my real name, but I don’t want to be anon to my friends.”
- “Video chat with 10 people? Uh…no…”
Zzzz…
The thing with Facebook and Myspace and Twitter is they don’t produce any content. We, the users of these sites, provide all the content, and you never know when or what can cause a mass exodus.
When you don’t actually produce the content (just a means to display the huge amount of content that the USERS PRODUCE) that people log in to see everyday, and the value of your company rests on this…well, you get the picture.
Here are a couple more obligatory XKCD links, demonstrating how dramatically things can change in just a few years:
2007: xkcd: Online Communities
This.
When they did they last buy out of MySpace, the new folks in charged decided to change the layout to something more like Facebook. . . except it was a million times more complicated. To this day, I don’t know how to check my MySpace anymore. Any time I log in, I’m faced with a weird wall of pictures and stuff. I was still in my early 20s when these changes happened a few years ago, too, so if I couldn’t understand what happened, that says something.
I love the fact that in 802 the 4chan island is shaped like a penis.
I am shocked that it is worth $35 million.
I’m not surprised to hear that it’s still worth 35m. MySpace may be dead compared to $70b Facebook, but it’s still used. There’s still advertising dollars to be reaped.