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Re: How Not To Sell Your Company: Call It Quits

Ben Kessler — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:19:51 -0000

I agree 100%. Bit.ly and Twitter are basically in bed, I'm not sure why Twitter doesn't slap their name on the service, as well as purchase Twitpic to make them much more integrated and stable.

Re: How Not To Sell Your Company: Call It Quits

BarryG — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:03:11 -0000

The fact that we need third-party URL shorteners is a failure of Twitter. Twitter is a dumb pipe--the things that make it useful, like non-web clients, URL shorteners, twitpic, etc. are all just part of a fragile 3rd party ecosystem. What if bit.ly or twitpic die? Suddenly, millions of historic twits become worthless and Twitter has lost a lot of value.

I don't understand why Twitter hasn't made native versions (or bought) these things? How can they ever expect to monetize when so much of the service's value is added by 3rd parties?

Re: How Not To Sell Your Company: Call It Quits

Daniel Delaney — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:15:00 -0000

I'm a big fan of tr.im and don't plan on stopping use of it for myself and VendrTV. Everyone's been in a bind and made poor decisions. We learn most from our mistakes. No one was really hurt, and in the end all that happened was they drummed up a little more PR and became a bit smarter.