Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥Jul 30, 2023

how come nobody has tried releasing a fully functioning twitter alternative? is it really that hard?

- threads has no web interface
- bluesky is invite only, idk if mobile even exists
- mastadon is all the things the glorious creators of it designed it to be and thus isn't very good

- twitter itself seems to be competing in this landscape of broken nonsense

CAN SOMEONE NOT JUST COPY THE OLD TWITTER??

Show threadMark RiedlJul 30, 2023
@jbigham social is sticky
Show threadGreg Linden
@Riedl @jbigham Fully agree that the problem is not technical, but in shifting the network. Still, these are big, well-funded competitors, and they couldn't even duplicate the tech correctly, not to mention making it easy to transition whole networks of people over, which they didn't do either. I think Jeff's right that they didn't get any part of copying Twitter and stealing its users correct, not the tech or transitioning networks over, and that's lame given how much money is at stake.
Jul 30, 2023 at 11:13pmWeb