It’s always remarkable to watch the early-adopter tech community get caught in its own hamster wheel (no pointing fingers here… I’m admittedly being self-reflective). The tools that are quickly embraced are just as quickly critiqued. We’re not being fickle or needy, simply realistic. In a sphere defined by fast-paced conversation, we need our communication tools to work, and work well. Or we move on.
Case in point: This week’s Twitter outages (as if you didn’t know where I was going here…)
After a day of Twitter at about 50% speed, I get this Tweet:
Twitter down again, eh? Conversations are moving to Friendfeed, leave your handle here.
The result? 126 comments in a day.
Given the fact that our social media creators are are large part of the social media conversation, it seems that the old adage holds true: We’re all our own worst critics.
Thankfully, while the conversation among early-adopters stays fairly self-entrenched, these critiques -for the most part- can be viewed as healthy growing pains.
But when does a conversation killer turn into an app killer?
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Flickr thanks to Kate_A (great shot!)
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