Odeo Releases Twttr [2006]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/#comments

by wave • 17 years ago

89 35 17 years ago

bensummers• 17 years ago

Shades of "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." But would anyone really have predicted the success of Twitter in July 2006?

enjo• 17 years ago

To be fair: Twitter today is a rather different product as well. Gone is the emphasis on SMS, and instead it's a micro-whatever social thingie.

bumblebird2• 17 years ago

Also, the "success of twitter" still really has to yet be proven. They get data through their free backend message queue, but can that be converted to cash?

jiggity• 17 years ago

very true, but it's the fact that the founders let it evolve, surviving past the bitter cynicism I think is the lesson here.

raghus• 17 years ago

The comments on the TC article are really worth reading

rms• 17 years ago

Yeah, it was before TC comments jumped the shark. I don't know why they don't use a much more aggressive moderation policy; the toxic comments rub off on the rest of the site.

jarnold• 17 years ago

I thought this was funny, "So is it pronounced twitter or twatter?"

thinkzig• 17 years ago

I imagine most users are not going to want to have all of their Twttr messages published on a public website.

Heh.

petercooper• 17 years ago

Slashdot's "Apple Releases iPod" news from 2001 is similarly funny looking back: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

jasonlbaptiste• 17 years ago

Ha, very cool! I was reading through and found my comment from then.

"Looks interesting. Any word on how it might tie into Odeo? The privacy options are key. I’d never want any of my text messages public… especially the drunken ones. Nick over at valleywag, might have a new gossip and scoop source. Overall though, cool site, with lots of room to grow if it can fix a few things."

petenixey2• 17 years ago

Attaboy Sumon, good comment

ojbyrne2• 17 years ago

"and a few select insiders were playing with the service at the Valleyschwag party in San Francisco last night." I enjoyed that, because I was at that party. Though not one of the "select insiders." However I'm tempted to think "a few select insiders" is actually Mike Arrington weasel words for "me."

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

Are you really accusing Arrington of downplaying his importance in the tech world?

ojbyrne2• 17 years ago

I thought I was accusing him of narcissism. Namely that "influential insiders" is synonymous with his friends, or to reduce it to it's basics, himself.

qeorge3• 17 years ago

Can you imagine a web service launching publicly today without making sure Mike Arrington had a working account?

Good find, thanks for submitting.

ubernostrum3• 17 years ago

I launch web services publicly on a regular basis, and don't really care whether anyone at TechCrunch has an account.

jmathai2• 17 years ago

Amen. I read TC but the idea that you need to get TC'ed is emotionally flawed.

felixmar• 17 years ago

It does not take much time to contact them personally and let them know about your site. A bit of courtesy in the startup world is never wrong.

wmeredith• 17 years ago

We launched 360voltage.com on Monday, Mike Arrington doesn't have an account... (Maybe I should get him one?)

ZitchDog• 17 years ago

Probably want to make sure your site is up and running first - I can't seem to access it.

alabut• 17 years ago

I loved Twitter and signed up super early (summer 06) because it helped me keep in touch with my wife while she finished nursing school in San Diego and I was working my first SF job.

Reading the original review reminds me of how much I liked the original SMS-and-web-only focus. It leaves room for recent apps that focus on Twitter's original core mission of group texting, like Tatango:

http://tatango.com/

mtrichardson• 17 years ago

Agreed.

(there's also http://www.ccsync.com/ )

treyp• 17 years ago

(and 3jam, http://www.3jam.com/group-phone-number.php , although they've moved into the google voice space recently)

jbc252• 17 years ago

I'm seriously confused about the name. Is it really pronounced "twitter"?? Is that not borderline trademark infringement?

petenixey2• 17 years ago

Check the date.

jbc252• 17 years ago

Damn those post dates are barely noticeable sometimes.

marknutter• 17 years ago

This is classic. One thing I've learned from glimpses back at history like this is that the more off-the-cuff negative comments there are about a new idea, typically, the better. Simplicity is often met with disdain, mainly because people hold the belief that anything that becomes hugely successful must be insanely complicated. It pains us to see something so seemingly easy to come up with become such a hit.

I feel this way with a lot of successful startups today; a combination of jealousy and flippant denial. With Twitter, however, I remember being excited about it and joining really early on. I was mainly excited to hear what my friends were up to or thinking at any given moment since we've all spread out across the globe, but it wasn't until it became super popular that my less technical friends started joining and it became valuable. Now I love it.

bdittmer• 17 years ago

Man, it sure was nice when TC was about reviewing startups.

Odeo Releases Twttr [2006]

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