Comments on: It’s Official, Twitter is a Cult

By: “Twouble with Twitters” Funny animation vid explaining and condemning Twitter « The Absence of Alternatives

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:08:49 +0000

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By: LIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » Explaining Twitterspeak to Others

LIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » Explaining Twitterspeak to Others — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:05:22 +0000

[...] short format person-to-world shouting been possible, and we have a long way to go to until we truly understand the impact. But in the meantime, with all the new users coming to Tweetersville, I figured I’d put [...]

By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:02:08 +0000

The fatal flaw you overlook, is that there are those of us that don’t fit all five requirements of a cult, and therefore, aren’t members of it. And of course, by your above definition, all established religions are indeed cults, therefore, a more accurate definition is needed. Otherwise, fine article. Oh, and follow me on Twitter

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:40:54 +0000

btw. Nice post! POST, not a tweet.

We’ve missed you JT!

By: tivoboy

tivoboy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:40:23 +0000

“It is also a recognized 501c3 organization by the IRS”

okay, this just cannot be accurate. They MIGHT have an org in there somewhere, seperate from the corp/inc. but the whole thing is not a charity.

By: John Furrier

John Furrier — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:14:33 +0000

Nice Job and great tweetbait opps sorry that was too cultish .. Seriously good Angle on Twitter because that is how newbies look at Twitter.

This is a big positioning issue for Twitter. Like Thomas Hawks says about Friendfeed is worse and that has caused them some growth problems. Twitter is great. I love the service. The way to solve the cult potential positioning is to “get a life”.

By: Miss Expatria

Miss Expatria — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:17:51 +0000

I loves me some Twitter, but I’ve had people ask me about it and depending on why they want to use it, I’ve told them it’s not for them. I think it’s a kick-ass business tool, but I keep track of friends and family on Facebook.

By: Srini Kumar

Srini Kumar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:53:08 +0000

You’re making light of the we’re all going to be on the spaceship cult, but think about it.

Web services are building a critical social infrastructure for space colonization. As if people would colonize other planets or star systems without Facebook.

While our species is waiting for our engineers to get around to the conceptual and hardware tech – OK, we’ll be waiting centuries for the “collapsar jump” or the “hyperspace drive”, perhaps, but still – we are developing here and now the psychological infrastructure that, now that it exists, obviously always was a precondition to the spaceship – we just had no idea that we needed it until it actually existed.