Comments on: Yahoo Joins Twitter

By: mike

mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:26:40 +0000

What I want is the ability to seamlessly notify my Twiciples each time I conduct a search on Google (or Amazon, or eBay or Craigslist). So that any of my Twiciples who has knowledge on that subject can help me out. Of course I’d want the option to disable this feature for specific queries… like when i’m searching for a gift for my boss or something

For instance I just searched Google for “iphone video recorder app” and then I subsequently updated my Facebook status with “Do any of you people know where I can get my hands on a reliable video recorder app for my iPhone?”

So, there’s yer million dollar idea.. make it happen, someone.

By: Rezzan Kiraz

Rezzan Kiraz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:54:30 +0000

I only wish HH and the followers would find a safer place. It irks me how nations in power insist on denying a people freedom to choose their own path.

It reminds me of a bitter mother refusing to let her children play because she's afraid she won't be needed anymore.

On the flipside, it also tires me that Buddhism believes that aversion to the pleasure/pain cycle is the way to happiness. I have always believed it is merely the recognition of both as beautiful.

By: Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:28:26 +0000

This is an interesting posibility. In an increasingly mono-cultural (i.e. Google-dominated) world there are a few services – Flickr, delicious among them – which retain their island-like status. Adding another strong island like Twitter could be a shrewd move – if only Yahoo! could develop a strategy around these pockets of excellence. A true challenge, I think.

By: Randy Ksar

Randy Ksar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:12:57 +0000

I like what Yahoo! is doing and learning about social media and how to interact with their fans. I wonder if this had to get approved or someone just went ahead and did it.

By: Hashem Bajwa

Hashem Bajwa — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:17:10 +0000

An interesting thought, would benefit Yahoo perhaps, but I’d be fearful of the move. Flickr has hardly changed, improved or innovated since its acquisition by Yahoo, a promising startup and innovative social photo community and site on the web gobbled up and languishing ever since. The curse of innovative companies being bought up by larger slower moving ones? I hope Yahoo doesn’t buy Twitter, or rather that Twitter doesn’t sell to Yahoo…

By: John Newton

John Newton — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:45:40 +0000

It’s interesting to see the discrepancy between the 17 Yahoo! twitter accounts that already existed, opened by the individual business units. Some (yahoo_directory, yahoomovies, yahoogames) seem to follow those who follow them, creating a two-way conversation, whereas others (Delicious, YahooGeo, ydn) are very much one way.

By: AussieWebmaster

AussieWebmaster — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:48:27 +0000

Thanks for looking at my article. My view is Google has the money not to monetize and could easily just add a tab at the top for search… I constantly go to search to find an answer or link for people I am twitting with…. that page could have ads etc.

By: cheap domain

cheap domain — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:08:36 +0000

Mr.Battelle, i do agree with you that Yahoo has got the cash to buy out twitter if they want to. I think they should go for it cause google really need to be marked neck to neck.

By: Tim Street

Tim Street — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:09:35 +0000

I love Yahoo and I love Twitter but I really don’t want to have to sign in to Twitter with a Yahoo ID. ;-p

By: Tom Crowl

Tom Crowl — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:46:26 +0000

Such a trip!

I love Twitter... but very interesting how different people use it.

For me it's like this artistic challenge...

Trying to come up with concise little concepts in 140 characters...

More for fun and usually once a day or so.

But I have another friend, technically sophisticated and full geek who has no interest in it at all and doesn't see any future in it.

Personally I do think it has a long future... if for no other reason than that its a very clean function and has established enough penetration that overcoming "Internet Inertia" would be difficult for a competitor.

The limits of its revenue potentials seem less clear though should ultimately be a stable stream whatever it ends up being...

Which is nothing to laugh at these days.

As for Yahoo's twitters!

Well I'll follow 'em and we'll see how it goes...