I noted earlier that Yahoo had joined Twitter, and thought out loud about a combination of those two. I’ve also thought out loud about Google, and this week the company also joined Twitter. It’s interesting to note the differences between the two.
First, Yahoo joined earlier, but has 5200 followers, compared to Google’s nearly 30K – all in the past two days. Second, the voice. Google’s first post was too clever by .5:
“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”
Sorry, I have no idea what that signifies, though I know it’s binary for something.
Yahoo’s:
“Hello, world. We’re going to give this Twitter thing a whirl. (Hey, better late than never)”
Human, but a bit cute.
Yahoo joined mid Jun and is averaging about 300 new followers a day.
Google joined two days ago and is averaging about ten times that many a day.
Can that keep up?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If a team at Google and at Yahoo (and Microsoft AND Facebook, for that matter) are not scraping Twitter and figuring out how to build TweetSense, they most certainly should be.
The Google message was “I’m F E E L I N G L U C K Y” in ASCII.
It means “I’m feeling lucky!”
😉
Google’s first tweet translates to I’m Feeling Lucky.
I just KNEW there’s be almost simultaneous decodings in the comments. Way to move fast, Josh!
Great binary minds at work.
For the right brain viewer, follow the Yahoo, Google contest at http://twitter.tEarn.com/ – a photo/video/Twitter chat view of the contest.
Google’s so-called participation is completely ludicrous — see http://twitter.com/nmw/status/1258850493 + http://twitter.com/nmw/status/1258858899
It’s not just the followers. Check out how much Yahoo and Google are mentioned on Twitter:
http://twist.flaptor.com/?gram=google%2C+yahoo&table=0
Imagine if the extra traffic from Google joining stretched the Twitter servers to breaking point, leading them into the arms of an acquirer…
Sorry to correct Josh, but it’s binary, not ASCII
binary -> ascii -> character
01100110 102 f
01100101 101 e
01100101 101 e
01101100 108 l
01101001 105 i
01101110 110 n
01100111 103 g
00100000 32 space
01101100 108 l
01110101 117 u
01100011 99 c
01101011 107 k
01111001 121 y
00001010 10 n
Exactly, i followed them. 🙂
Who cares about Twitter? Seriously, either Google or Yahoo or Facebook could make a Twitter clone and put Twitter out of business within two years.
Twitter is one of those things where heavy users think it’s the bees knees, but is absolutely irrelevant to the rest of the world; overall the user behavior is similar to IRC or general message boards.
Follow the leader leader leader
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Hands up, down
Hands up, down……