{"id":42420,"date":"2014-06-06T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/omg-twitter-is-dying-well-no-its-not.html"},"modified":"2014-06-07T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T16:19:49","slug":"omg-twitter-is-dying-well-no-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/omg-twitter-is-dying-well-no-its-not.html","title":{"rendered":"OMG TWITTER IS DYING! Well, no, it’s not"},"content":{"rendered":"
No, it's not shrinking, it's just not growing as fast.<\/p>\n

No, letting people choose who to follow (and unfollow) is Twitter's strength, not its weakness.<\/p>\n

No, limiting messages to 140 characters is really not a massive hardship keeping Twitter from being a tremendous success. \u00a0Taut messages and links into more detailed content elsewhere are a mighty powerful combination.<\/p>\n

Twitter is not for everybody, any more than Facebook or any other system or social media is. But overpriced stock that gets sold off doesn't mean the underlying company is "in trouble" — it must means that occasionally the market behaves in a rational fashion.<\/p>\n

Silly article.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Twitter\u2019s in Trouble. Here\u2019s How It Can Avoid Becoming the Next AOL | Business | WIRED<\/a>
\n Users are abandoning the service, growth has been stagnant and social media pundits wonder if Twitter is heading toward irrelevance. Here’s what it can do to fix it.\n <\/p>\n

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No, it's not shrinking, it's just not growing as fast. No, letting people choose who to follow (and unfollow) is Twitter's strength, not its weakness. No, limiting messages to 140 characters is really not a massive hardship keeping Twitter from being a tremendous success. \u00a0Taut messages and links into more detailed content elsewhere are a … Continue reading “OMG TWITTER IS DYING! 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