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1 year ago
in Twitter Faces Serious Problems on Social Times
Totally agree.
I think it's a combination of a few things and now that the B round is closed, it should (has to) get better.
The very nature of raising money is extremely time consuming and mentally exhausting. I'm not taking anything away from Jack or Evan, but I think they (and their investors) would agree their time and energy would be better off spent on running Twitter instead of drowning in the "deal".
So I think the chronology of events makes sense. Jack and Ev were distracted to get the deal done, traffic continued to grow, which caused reduced attention to scale and performance and the site sucked. Which it did/does.
Notice. The deal was done last night and Jack made a post about downtime. Interesting timing.
What surprises me a little is that Fred and Albert at Union Square Ventures didn't step in a little earlier than they did to give a boost. I know all of that takes time to put together, and they have probably been working on it a long time, but I think it was a little late. I think the majority of heavy Twitter users would also agree.
At the same time, I'm really not worried at all about their business, their business model, or their uptime at this point. Why? Because I know that Union Square is behind them, and now the rumor is that Bijan and his crew at Spark Capital led this B round with USV. It makes sense; both of those companies have very solid portfolios, know what they are doing, and have been in the game for a while.
Now that the round is done, I think we'll see at least one or two top notch engineers join Twitter to help them grow (the right way).
Cudos to the Twitter team, Union Square, and Spark (I think)
I think it's a combination of a few things and now that the B round is closed, it should (has to) get better.
The very nature of raising money is extremely time consuming and mentally exhausting. I'm not taking anything away from Jack or Evan, but I think they (and their investors) would agree their time and energy would be better off spent on running Twitter instead of drowning in the "deal".
So I think the chronology of events makes sense. Jack and Ev were distracted to get the deal done, traffic continued to grow, which caused reduced attention to scale and performance and the site sucked. Which it did/does.
Notice. The deal was done last night and Jack made a post about downtime. Interesting timing.
What surprises me a little is that Fred and Albert at Union Square Ventures didn't step in a little earlier than they did to give a boost. I know all of that takes time to put together, and they have probably been working on it a long time, but I think it was a little late. I think the majority of heavy Twitter users would also agree.
At the same time, I'm really not worried at all about their business, their business model, or their uptime at this point. Why? Because I know that Union Square is behind them, and now the rumor is that Bijan and his crew at Spark Capital led this B round with USV. It makes sense; both of those companies have very solid portfolios, know what they are doing, and have been in the game for a while.
Now that the round is done, I think we'll see at least one or two top notch engineers join Twitter to help them grow (the right way).
Cudos to the Twitter team, Union Square, and Spark (I think)
1 year ago
in Verizon claims it has “iPhone killer” on Scobleizer
"iPhone killer"??? Seems more like iPhone follower; and a bad one at that. It's interesting to watch the rest of the world try to keep up with Apple's innovation and engineering. The company that comes close will shake all markets.
1 year ago
in Apple has a PR nightmare brewing… on Scobleizer
My update went ok, but had issues with iTunes and iPhone syncing after the iPhone did it's reboot. iTunes was open on the iMac, phone rebooted and just sat there. I closed iTunes and the phone said "Activation Required". Started freaking out a little, relaunched iTunes and it finally did it's sync. All data present. Overall, a little disappointed in Steve's QA efforts tonight, especially if legit phones are loosing data. A little clunky for Apple. Patrick, good luck buddy.
2 years ago
in On the BBC on Scobleizer
Great stuff Robert! You guys are facing some exciting times and I wish you luck at PodTech. Have a safe trip.
