Ask YC: Is it just me?

5 点作者 amarcus将近 17 年前

isn't twitter pretty much facebook status messages. If someone just makes a service which uses the facebook api to get your friend's status messages, would they not have cloned twitter. Facebook has a much larger userbase and obviously scales much better than twitter. You can update your status in facebook using a number of different ways (api, web, mobile etc...). Whats the big deal with twitter? I can't understand it.

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lbrandy将近 17 年前

No, but almost. First, twitter, unlike facebook, is asymmetric. Therefore, I can follow all my favorite web-celebrities, and they can totally ignore me. Second, because twitter is about more then just the most recent message from that user. It's an aggregation of those messages.<p>I think the real use for twitter comes from either sending out links, or mentioning breaking news (like, for example, tim russert's death, which zipped around twitter long before it broke).<p>In that regard, I think the a more "proper" mental model for twitter isn't so much as aggregated facebook status messages, but more like distributed reddit (except, in a central place... so.. psuedo-distributed?).

auston将近 17 年前

Or...get ready for the deep philosophical epiphany...<p>are facebook status messages pretty much tweets?

wensing将近 17 年前

I almost always write tweets beginning with 'is...'.<p>I use twitter as a substitute for blogging, which I can't possibly commit to (takes me too long to write a post).