Twitter: How to Steal an Idea and Make it Better
Ok, a couple weeks ago, Nickycakes signed up and started using Twitter. He was hesitant at first due to a few factors.
- Turnoff #1: shoemoney posted about it, which generally means it’s a crap service he’s been paid to promote
- Turnoff #2: nobody can really explain what twitter does, they just say to try it…no thanks
- Turnoff #3: it’s got a bunch of stupid web 2.0 graphics, which Nickycakes hates. it’s got a bunch of bubbly clouds and screams “IM AN IPOD LOVING D-BAG”.
- Turnoff #4: it’s called TWITTER…seriously…twitter….sounds like some 13 year old girl dress up myspace game. imagine the ridicule of using this service and then recommending it to family/friends.
So after much harassment to join by people, nickycakes signed up. He’s not too sure why people have trouble describing exactly what this service does. Here’s exactly what it is:
It’s facebook’s status updates.
There ya go. They took facebooks status updates and made a whole website and api around it. You post a short blurb about what you’re doing at the moment, and everyone who you’re friends with sees it on their feed. They added a few small things like the ability to reply to people or send private messages, which can be forwarded to your cellphone or google chat, but that’s the basics.
But for a completely ripped off idea, it is pretty addictive. There’s a firefox addon for it, which shows you popups in the lower right when new items show up on the feed, thunderbird style. It’s super easy to use it from your cell if you’re bored on the subway or whatever. ANDDDDD it’s syndicated on indexed blogs which lets you get a few backlinks for whatever links you’re posting.
And thank goodness, you can change the background of the page for your account so you dont have to look at those retarded clouds, otherwise the Cakes would have been out like a trout, for real.
So if you’re already signed up, or want to, go sign up and follow Nickycakes to see when he’s hittin up the gym or avoiding cooking for his girlfriend. You never know when he’ll be dropping that tip on how to make billions of dollars a minute online with no work!!111~
Heh it is very Web 1.0. Should I get the flaming torch background now?
I hate to detract, but unfortunately the links that get syndicated are often tinyurl links which dont give no love….so you gotta plan ahead to get around that fact.
Except that Facebook status updates became what they are today after Twitter.
What…something any idiot with a little php knowledge could code in their basement in an evening?
“out like a trout, for real.” – Classic, cakes
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BTW, can you add me on msn? Shady’s got my im.
There are a lot of ways you can use Twitter to market things by doing bulk “tweeting.”
Yea, Twitter is another ripped off idea. Those tend to have a history of doing well. Look at Windows.
Oh for fuck sake. I been avoiding this for awhile now and then you throw this curve ball in there. Guess I’ll have to check it out.
Yeah the whole Twitter thing sounded gay. Now it’s becoming one of those fads you’re almost forced to be part of, lol.
“IM AN IPOD LOVING D-BAG”
lmao! classic!!
Oh, no, it wasn’t knocked up in a weekend in PHP – it was done in *Ruby*.
Have you heard about the downtime and the missing posts yet?
Why not just use facebook? Twitter is probably one of the lamest things in the web.
goddsmn it.. i’ve attempted to stays as far away from fuckin; Twitter-me-this kinda apps…
just stumbled upon this blog today…
so i’ll give the damn thing a whirl.
guess i’m part of one of those lame, gay things on the web.
(ahh for fucksake!)