in fact i’m actually a pretty good example of this: several politicians and reasonably prominent progressive figures have/had followed me on twitter just because i make interesting posts sometimes and give them useful information they don’t have. i can’t really think of another space i’d have been able to do that in, and you can sometimes do it with very important or influential people in a way that’s just not true of any other place online.
There is nothing inherent about Twitter that makes it such beyond the network effect. Their dominance is transient. Investing a bit of time in developing networks now will pay off when they mature.
in fact i’m actually a pretty good example of this: several politicians and reasonably prominent progressive figures have/had followed me on twitter just because i make interesting posts sometimes and give them useful information they don’t have. i can’t really think of another space i’d have been able to do that in, and you can sometimes do it with very important or influential people in a way that’s just not true of any other place online.
There is nothing inherent about Twitter that makes it such beyond the network effect. Their dominance is transient. Investing a bit of time in developing networks now will pay off when they mature.