Matt Collins
12-26-2009, 11:28 PM
How Users Took Over Twitter:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter
...users may not embrace Twitter’s attempts at improvement. Every move the company makes comes under harsh scrutiny. Tech legend Dave Winer, who describes himself as one of the site’s biggest fans, was alarmed by the company’s ability to alienate its core users in such a way. “We need to get that power out of their hands,” he wrote on his blog.
Unbelievably, Twitter doesn’t even make an app for cell phones or other mobile gadgets, basically ceding that development to outsiders. “It’s nice to have the ecosystem out there innovating,” says Kevin Thau, the Twitter exec in charge of mobile. “It has created this whole communications system where people are saying, ‘What Twitter client do you use? Which one do you like?’”
The strength of Twitter is that the company already has thousands of people defining and redefining it every day
. Essentially, Twitter left a ball and a stick in a field and lurked on the sidelines as its users invented baseball.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_twitter
...users may not embrace Twitter’s attempts at improvement. Every move the company makes comes under harsh scrutiny. Tech legend Dave Winer, who describes himself as one of the site’s biggest fans, was alarmed by the company’s ability to alienate its core users in such a way. “We need to get that power out of their hands,” he wrote on his blog.
Unbelievably, Twitter doesn’t even make an app for cell phones or other mobile gadgets, basically ceding that development to outsiders. “It’s nice to have the ecosystem out there innovating,” says Kevin Thau, the Twitter exec in charge of mobile. “It has created this whole communications system where people are saying, ‘What Twitter client do you use? Which one do you like?’”
The strength of Twitter is that the company already has thousands of people defining and redefining it every day
. Essentially, Twitter left a ball and a stick in a field and lurked on the sidelines as its users invented baseball.