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Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+?

Posted by timothy on from the imitation-adoption-adaption-repeat dept.

suraj.sun writes with a ComputerWorld piece predicting the end of Twitter, at least in its current form. From the article: "It's only a matter of time before Twitter becomes a ghost town. While Google+ will soon do all the things Twitter does, Twitter can't support a long list of the things Google+ supports. Also on Google+, you can post pictures and videos directly in posts, launch immediately into a video chat, send your posts to nonmembers and even present all your posts marked 'Public' as a blog available to anyone with an Internet."

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  1. What is an Internet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I get "an Internet"? How do you quantify one?

    1. Re:What is an Internet? by TubeSteak · · Score: 5, Funny

      An Internet is the currency used on The Internet.

      On the internet's black market, Lulz are widely accepted alternate currency.

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    2. Re:What is an Internet? by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is only one internet, it lives atop Big Ben. Occasionally the elders will let you borrow it, if you are able to sufficiently impress them.

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  2. Long Live Twitter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But on Twitter I can use any name I wish ...

  3. Twitter exists to do less by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If were about "doing more," people would still just be using email (and email lists) over twitter. It's all the restrictions of twitter that prevent it from being a nuisance that made it stick.

  4. RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I get "an Internet"?

    RFC 1918 explains how to set up your own internet.

  5. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    See the answer straight from the horse's mouth: https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU.

  6. Not until Google+ allows pseudonyms by grumbel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I really can't see Google+ replacing Twitter anytime soon, as Google+ has a strict requirement for real names and will even close accounts based on it. Twitter on the other side is fine with pseudonyms and gets used a lot with them, not only from people that want to keep their real names private, but also organizations and companies that use it as their news feed or just from fake personalities for commedy purposes.

    Google+ seems to have some plans to allow business use in the future, but right now they doesn't and it's not clear if they only allow that for money or also for the average make-shift organization (i.e. Anonymous, Wikileaks, Free Software stuff, etc.).

    As far as I see it, with it's requirement for real names Google has essentially taken a first real step to being evil, while Twitter on the other side seems to be a much more open platform that is used by a lot of people that don't want their real names to be known for one reason or another.