Comments like yours are just so tired. Not only does the stream of seemingly trivial information accumulate into an intimate portrait of the lives of your friends, but twitter, facebook, and other services were used to straight up protest a sham election in a totalitarian state.
What the fuck else do you want to see twitter do before you think twice about one line joke comments that hurt this community?
Really, the one-liners are a reaction to the inflated importance people assign to a service which, to my best knowledge, doesn't even have any real plan to make a sustainable amount of money. Would a serious cyber-terrorist really choose Twitter to establish themselves as a credible threat?
I'd argue that the lampooning of such breathless awe, far from being some malevolent outside influence which is "hurting" the community, is a part of the community.
Sorry, your comment wasn't witty or original. Sniping, contentless comments don't belong here, and I'm surprised you're even disagreeing. It's plain to see your comment wasn't additive.
Twitter is making many millions from their search deals. They may not be worth a billion dollars, but I'd bet with the current business configuration, they could become profitable if they focused on it.
What part of "we're focusing on product and growth, not on making money" is hard to understand? Do you not believe them? Think they're actually pushing out ad sales and content licensing as hard as they can? Or, more likely, you're just ignorant of how their business is actually run. Ignorance is actually a generous term - you might know they're already making money and willfully ignore it.
I actually agree that twitter's image is inflated. But the US government was the first to make a move here. They didn't ask facebook to try to stay up (they didn't need to). I think this response by cyber terrorists (if it isn't some teenage in ohio) is rational.
It isn't what you were saying that I reacted to particularly, but how you said it. It would be the equivalent to my just responding "you're obviously an idiot who doesn't know anything about twitter".
Mmmm, delicious flamebait. Without wasting too much time, I'll just point out that such a severe response to a throwaway joke only underscores the original point I was making.
