Comments on: How did Twitter become popular?

By: Atul

Atul — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:12:45 +0000

@PPP – thanks for the insights, do give us more details on the offline bit.

@Anr – First step to get viral marketing going is to have something exciting, and that something exciting coming out in a different way than ever before, and that coupled with a stable medium of transfer which is easy to understand and where you spend the least time in configuring yourself to understand the medium.

By: anr

anr — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:37:55 +0000

how does one get that first step in viral mktg going? Or is it something one prays for and once in a while sometimes gets lucky?

maybe, you need to be part of some influential networks like those in the silicon valley? I do believe that there are and would have been many potent ideas in India too. Do those have a comparable chance of success?

By: Natrajan

Natrajan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:14:45 +0000

@ prashant

Just that my ego doesn’t allow me to be his Fan. Following him on twitter doesn’t hurt my ego.

By: prashant pawan

prashant pawan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:18:23 +0000

Also, just my two cents:
Maybe twitter became popular in India with the #mumbai tag, but it was already huge in the US/Europe by then.
Many people who attend tech conferences regularly, have mentioned that Twitter people hard sold themselves at each of the conferences (huge banners, free accounts, what not).
There is a very strong offline component to their growth (i dare say larger than the online/viral part).

By: prashant pawan

prashant pawan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:14:15 +0000

@ natrajan Actually you can become a 'fan' of him on FB, which has the same functionality as 'follow'. You get his updates on your stream. Celebs like Federer, ColdPlay are using this very well

By: Manoj Mathai

Manoj Mathai — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:00:42 +0000

twitter is awesome

By: Bhuvana Arasu

Bhuvana Arasu — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:11:08 +0000

Twitter has substituted google reader and epaper for me.. Very well written post. Especially where you have applied jargon like social media, networking to twitter and explained how it actually achieves it.

By: shubham

shubham — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:57:58 +0000

I think it is sort of evolution on the net. First there was Orkut but then people started feeling that it shares information in public and slowly people moved to Facebook. Next came twitter where you are only sharing what you want to share and there is very limited privacy and still people like it.
I head the term networking a lot nowdays! and truly Twitter is the only online networking tool! Rest all just connect with people you have already met.

By: natrajan

natrajan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:50:36 +0000

I can follow Shashi Tharoor on Twitter. But I can’t be friends with him on Facebook/Orkut.

That’s the fundamental difference

By: Bijay Rungta

Bijay Rungta — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:45:54 +0000

@Siddhesh

Yes indeed….

This is what’s been running in my mind for a couple of Days..

Because we follow each Other so I guess you will know when I am most active on Twitter and when not…

Cheers,
Bijay