Six years ago The Australian said Twitter wouldn’t last…
Six years ago to the day The Australian newspaper dedicated an entire leader column to an attack on micro-blogging platform Twitter.
In its article ‘Time is up for Twitter’ it wrote: “Certainly Twitter has generated a pandemic of popularity, but it appears many people quickly decide Twitter is tedious, with 60 per cent of new users becoming ex-users in a month.”
Fast forward six years, and the top two yarns on The Oz’s online Media section this morning suggest that may have been a hasty prediction…
In that same column the paper also criticises reality TV formats and YouTube, which “chews through vast amounts of bandwidth and more money”, proclaiming newspapers as a “community that people pay to belong to”.
HT: Trevor Young (via Twitter, ironically)
I must confess though that this was my prediction six years ago this month:
https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/could-news-ltd-take-its-newspapers-free-4581
2009 was a strange time…
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
What was The Australian’s prediction back in the day for Myspace? 😉
Did you see what happened to their share price yesterday?
News Ltd is a community I’d pay not to belong to.
Is Twitter delivering for shareholders? No. Are quality buyers actively using Twitter to assist buying decisions? No. As an addicted tweeter I must confess that I am a classic troll (or freedom fighter if you like) and use the site for sharing largely irrelevant opinions. It provides a nice attack vector for inserting a digital stiletto into the ribs of my many political enemies. It’s fun. Is that enough to satisfy investors? Doubtful, but I live in hope. In the meantime, it’s time to attack #theirABC and take some cheap shots on #auspol.
And what a sad pity that it did. Could we have progressed without knowing what all the sad self obsessed people think about issues they barely understand, their pathetic need to see their names on the screen on Q & A, their stupid attempts at wisdom and whether their poo floated this morning?
It’s ok, Tim.
Twitter on the surface seems downright pointless.
it is pointless