http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/2009/05/05/why-twitter-inc-will-fail/ Welcome to my World. Here, I am the Architect. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/2009/05/05/why-twitter-inc-will-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-5191 The reason for Twitter’s downfall | co>innovative Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:41:02 +0000 http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/?p=328#comment-5191 [...] Many have listed their reasoning for Twitter’s ultimate demise ranging from spam, to lack of monetization, to a steep dropoff of new users, but I believe the best argument has been articulated in various forms by Dave Winer and Marc Canter who have been saying for a while that the service Twitter offers should not be controlled by a single company and in fact cannot be controlled by a single company long term. A single owner creates a bottleneck, fail whales, and stifled innovation. A communication platform such as this will be subsumed into the web as a distributed service. There is no one Email Company, no RSS Company — these are distributed services that interact through standard interfaces. [...] [...] Many have listed their reasoning for Twitter’s ultimate demise ranging from spam, to lack of monetization, to a steep dropoff of new users, but I believe the best argument has been articulated in various forms by Dave Winer and Marc Canter who have been saying for a while that the service Twitter offers should not be controlled by a single company and in fact cannot be controlled by a single company long term. A single owner creates a bottleneck, fail whales, and stifled innovation. A communication platform such as this will be subsumed into the web as a distributed service. There is no one Email Company, no RSS Company — these are distributed services that interact through standard interfaces. [...]

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