> Interesting to me that when Twitter was ascendant the same predictions of doom were not made so frequently
... wait, they absolutely were, though? I remember at the time people saying that Twitter was doomed for this very reason, by analogy to Friendster, an early MySpace-ish/Facebook-ish thing which was never able to stay up.
It was a pretty common belief at the time that unreliable Twitter would be replaced by Pownce/Google Buzz/something entirely different.
... wait, they absolutely were, though? I remember at the time people saying that Twitter was doomed for this very reason, by analogy to Friendster, an early MySpace-ish/Facebook-ish thing which was never able to stay up.
It was a pretty common belief at the time that unreliable Twitter would be replaced by Pownce/Google Buzz/something entirely different.