was twitter ever valued at one billion dollars
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
facebok wants peoples pictures because people click on photos more than text updates and links, and they spend more time looking at photos
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
also I'm not that surprised considering Draw Something sold for like $200 million a few weeks ago
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw on Twitter: "Facebook buying Instagram to provide seamless integration between photos of your dinner and the people who don't want to see them."
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
p sure fb bought instagram so they could insert a crude drawing of a penis into everybody's pictures, good prank zuck
i mean im sure theres some kind of data mining aspect but mostly its an engagement thing. photos mean more time spent on facebook and more links followed.
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:02 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
im sure its currently more
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
I think draw something was pretty similar to this in that zynga saw it as a potential large game company and just wanted to squash it
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
brb coding 'twitter shitter' app
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, April 9, 2012 3:03 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
7b internet says
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
they could have saved $200m by just playing draw something and realizing how it gets boring after like 2 days but instead they just looked at how many users it had and wrote a check
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah the backlash over this is p funny and extremely pointless. But yeah i suppose some people just need something to talk about.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
7b tweets
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
A friend of mine who works in tech told me the thing about facebook increasingly being seen as "for old people" by the young and I kind of didn't believe it, but now I can totally see it becoming the AOL of tomorrow.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
what was yahoo gonna get sold at back when companies still wanted to buy yahoo
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
that almost gives me hope for the future, kids can take down this awful company
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean it's just the inevitable thing of it being impossible for something to stay cool and also have your mom on it.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
it'll be replaced by some justin-bieber-social-network or something but still
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Too late dawg http://www.getshitter.com/
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
obviously that means fb needs to branch out with exciting new hip variants like facebook: code red and facebook: baja blast
I think hating on Facebook is probably the cool thing among the young, but yeah those ppl also have to check their phone every time someone comments on a post like 10x a day.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I would love it if 29,999,997 Instagram users stopped using Instagram tomorrow in disgust, meaning that Facebook has paid $1B for 3 people's details.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
btw whatever Twitter is valued at their cash flow is balls. The company I work for just ventured into the world of Twitter advertising (or "promoted products" lol) and they expect all their advertisers to be never-ending money faucets.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've hardly used Twitter, so I'll probably only get two squares of paper. Better cut out the high fibre diet.
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
brb coding 'yourmomdefinitelywontbeondisting' app
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
In my case 'dis ting' is the entire internet, so wvs...
― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/instagram_logo.png http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/b9e75d38827211e1989612313815112c_7.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:05 PM (2 minutes ago)
if somebody develops a useful alternative they could capitalize on this disaffection but there aren't any real competitors atm. I have some late teens/early 20s friends on FB from the local music scene, one posted that he was going back to myspace and everybody kind of laughed at him.
google couldn't pull off a viable vehicle and they were already in the catbird seat. if it does happen it will prolly come out of left field.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
the buying of instagram was a great boon for graphic designers who work at tech news sites
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
one thing that's interesting about this is that, well, can the social giants always and forever just eat their competition? millions of people can start using something new very, very quickly...it in some ways justifies the draw something / instagram prices but you can't do that indefinitely when it's so easy to compete.
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
if somebody develops a useful alternative they could capitalize on this disaffection but there aren't any real competitors atm.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
see but the thing is the next facebook isnt a facebook clone, it doesnt need to be an alternative, it just needs to be the next thing people will dick around with every day, which is why instagram was more dangerous to fb than google+
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
implicit in "useful alternative" is something that has legs, it obv doesn't have to (and prolly won't) be an fb clone (tho fb was not substantially diff than friendster or myspace)
stuff like instagram is a challenge to fb in terms of stealing a user's time from fb, but as a challenge to their hegemony, no
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
FB = nu-AOL is very apt metaphor imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
"f*** facebook goodbye" looks like a shop
― the late great, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:30 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if users dont spend time on facebook what hegemony do they have exactly
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, it's like how much time ppl spend at the macaroni grill not connected to the mall vs in the mall itself, it's still most likely a 80/20 split, and macaroni grill is never going to BE the mall
also hipstamatic 4 lyfe, stupid name or no
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/white_mountains.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
and according to my palm pilot anybody can be nu-AOL
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
How many 'fuck facebook!' posts are going to be posted on facebook today?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
what were your guys' fav aol dailup noises
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:45 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if instagram steals facebooks photos and twitter steals their status updates and foursquare takes location and blah blah etc soon theres nothing people use facebook for anymore and the mall sits defunct and forlorn
its ironic that fb has spent all this energy trying to be everything to everyone when people seem more n more happy to use diff services for each thing, sometimes they route that stuff through fb but increasingly not so much
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
malls are also dying btw
― iatee, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
because of the internet... lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
that internet will never kill the macaroni grill
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
^^lyrics to my new song
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
brb writing a macaroni app
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
when i make a billion off my dating site tenderoni grill i don't wanna any of y'all coming to me for handouts
― ghostface protocollah (some dude), Monday, 9 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:37 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, this is one of those interesting internet class/education things, as more people start using FB you have more people -- usually older, poorer, ppl with fewer years of schooling -- using it "wrong" (this is kind of bill hitchert's thing), which means the tech bros and the youngs will go somewhere else for the social stuff. instagram is probably a good bet for a place theyd jump, which is one reason facebook bought it, and one reason people are freaking out about it
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
path is totally better than instagram via my personal experience of using neither of them
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 April 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
i mean compare w/ last week when instagram introduced the android version of the app and tons of instagram users freaked out b/c all the poors would start posting photos
― max, Monday, 9 April 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
i tried path, i really did, but fuck that