This is remarkable, even to me. The main point: if you're doing a startup, things take a <i>long</i> time. Longer than you'd expect. And overnight success is anything but.
Does anybody have any information about the types of things that twitter did at first to market themselves?<p>This is a problem for me doing thingist (<a href="http://thingist.com" rel="nofollow">http://thingist.com</a>)... the people who have found and signed up for it seem to have really liked it, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to get <i>more</i> of those people.<p>(And I am an admittedly horrible marketing person)
"We receive about 100 status updates per day". 5 years later, the average number of tweets per day is 140 MILLION.<p>(According to <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html</a>)
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Having just launched Momentomail and watching our userbase <i>slowly</i> grow despite quite a bit of effort to get coverage, it's been a struggle to keep positive.<p>This is a great story that put a bunch of hot air in our balloon tonight as we realized we're actually not too far off this track.<p>We have no expectation of being another Twitter by any possible stretch of the imagination, but finding out that at this early stage we're tracking with a reasonable expectation is a great point of validation.