Twitter’s Suggested Users
Winer thinks it’s time to break out of Twitter because of the highly discussed suggested user page; http://tr.im/hkxi
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 15:21 on 13. March 2009 Permalink |
TC: “When newbies sign up to Twitter now, they are presented with a list of 100 suggested users to start following. Simply being on that list can boost your followers well above 100,000. … Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who is no Twitter slouch himself with 61,266 hard-earned followers, thinks that being one of the top 20 on the suggested list will be worth as much as a Superbowl ad within five years. He is offering Twitter $250,000 to lock in a spot on the suggested list for two years, or $120,000 for one year.”
Winer: “This isn’t the way the Internet works. The guys at Twitter should know this. I think they’re living in a bubble, and creating one at the same time. No one likes someone who pops the bubble while it’s still building. So be it. We need to get that power out of their hands, or they need to disclaim it. They’re such a small guy, it’s really puzzling why they would do something that alienates so many. Most people won’t say it, for the obvious reason that their business interests prevent them from. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be said.”
TC: “Traffic from Twitter spiked in January, before we were added to the list, growing from 67,000 page views to 130,000 in that month. In February, when follow number spiked upwards, traffic actually dipped to 111,000 page views. The first 11 days in March have brought in 53,000 page views from Twitter, suggesting the month will end up around 150,000. – If the March data holds, that tells us that 65,573 hard core users brought us 130,000 January page views. Nearly quadrupling that number of followers will only bring in an extra 20,000 page views in March. – We love these new users, but they aren’t nearly as valuable to us as the ones that we fought for in the early days of Twitter.“
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