Comments on: To Boost Retention, Twitter Tries To Explain Itself

By: clifsmif

clifsmif — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:01:24 +0000

"Alway's" having problems contributing posts in categories other than Home; just never takes!

By: Marlin May

Marlin May — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:58:45 +0000

Kelsie's viewpoint is valid… for 17 year olds.

Since Twitter users seem to skew older, and younger users just don't get it (wow, isn't that an intriguing idea) , well, don't market to them. Caveat – I haven't seen demographics on Twitter churn. I don't know the hard age range breakdowns, all I've seen is anecdotal stuff.

That being said, instead focus on the fact that you've created something actually rather interesting, a social networking tool that web savvy older users actually like.

By: ed dunn

ed dunn — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:05:43 +0000

kelsie viewpoint is valid.

In terms of social networking, most people I know that are 17 are using the SMS feature of Facebook and Twitter to them is a redundant one-trick pony.

Twitter better do something fast and I'm going to warn everybody around here – just because you sitting on $100 million in funding does not mean you cannot become obsolete or scooped by a competitor who do know what to do with your ideal…

By: Joseph Tartakoff

Joseph Tartakoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:36:20 +0000

I don't think it's so much that it's difficult to use but rather that to get the most out of it you do have to have some basic background — like how to retweet or what a hashtag is.

– Joe Tartakoff, paidContent.org

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:33:52 +0000

It's not that we dont know how to use it.
its just dumb.

By: kelsie

kelsie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:30:40 +0000

Personally, no offence to the makers of twitter it just isnt intirguing for people my age (17). Not one person i know has twitter,maybe it is just an american thing seeing that I live in Canada but everyone thinks it is lame.