Jeff's JunkThe sillynonsense and .NET musings of Jeff PutzTwitter is all about Scoble Twitter is about something else- May 30, 2008 It seems like a good post from the folks at Twitter has been interpreted by Scoble as being all about him. I gotta say, I'm just not seeing it. I'm also not sure why Scoble is throwing such a public tantrum about Twitter's down time.Regardless of what you think about it all, there's a strangely familiar pattern I've seen when it comes to the tech-centric "2.0" apps and what typical software development has experienced for longer than I've been doing it. Scoble is the big power customer, much...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/05/30/twitter-is-all-about-scoble-twitter-is-abou... Why Ariel is right about communities and doing what is right- May 29, 2008 There was some controversy surrounding Twitter's non-reaction to dealing with some allegedly harassing posts recently, with the noise being made by a user who is reasonably well known in certain tech circles. (The fact that she works for competitor Pownce I think is irrelevant, but some are making noise about it.)Basically, Twitter is making a lot of stupid statements in public and not owning up to, well, what they own. They can do whatever the hell they want, but for some reason doing what's...http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/05/29/why-ariel-is-right-about-communities-and-do... $80 million Twitter- May 22, 2008 Twitter scores another $15 million, and it's worth around $80 million.So let me get this straight... A Web app with no business model that basically blogs short entries and aggregates them is worth $80 million.Doesn't that feel very 1999 to youhttp://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2008/05/22/80-million-twitter.aspx |