Far from — Twitter, while having a brilliant idea, lacks many features, necessary for survival. In reference to the TechCrunch article posted yesterday, It really seems true that people could care less that twitter is always down, which proves the loyalty twitters userbase has. 
Twitter almost appears to have the Google, simplistic, thing going for it, but could that arrogance hurt them in the long run? The user base isn’t so much loyal, as it is dependent. There has yet to be something out there that takes twitter on in a really intuitive way. Of course there is identi.ca, but unfortunately, they lack the biggest feature that keeps the tweets rolling in — the existing user base, and network. If Twitter had a way to export your followed, and followers, then we would see the end of Twitter in the upcoming months.
The network Twitter provides has even spawned comments by some of the nets top bloggers, quoting Michael Arrington of TechCrunch as saying “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” (TechCrunch, 08). It’s not the excellent service, it’s the network. Port the network somewhere else, and anything can survive.
As quoted from the geek cult classic Pirates of Silicon Valley “You survive by making people need you, then when they need you they have nowhere else to go.” That is probalby the most relevent line to twitters continued success — It is both the question, and the answer. How will Twitters castle crumble?
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