Loic Le Meur: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl
Netliving
· 1 year ago
Congratulations Loic, I understand It's one of the best movement in microblogging... Awesome for the users too!
Palluxo
· 1 year ago
I wonder why is Twitter so popular? I can tell you about tons of other websites and applications that are much more interesting than Twitter, and yet they are not even closely as popular as Twitter.
That's a great acquisition! Looking forward to more good things from twhirl. Congrats, Marco.
jason
· 1 year ago
your link to your facebook comes back to this page...
Chris Stewart
· 1 year ago
nice to see one of the best microblogging app developers being rewarded for listening to the community. Looking forward to future innovation that will arise from the effort of this special combination of minds and philosophies. Not to mention the synergy ;) (from my iPhone)
Ed Illig
· 1 year ago
Once this merge gets it's sea legs I will most definitely revisit Seesmic. The friend/follow aspect was a primary impediment to adoption for me. Nice move. Lots of promise.
christinelu
· 1 year ago
i HEART twhirl. so glad to see you guys have hooked up. i was just wishing the other day for a desktop client that had seesmic integration for twitter...very cool.
Lionel Menchaca
· 1 year ago
Loic: Congrats on an acquisition that makes a lot of sense. I've been impressed by Twhirl in a big way ever since I started running it.
Was equally impressed by Marco's responsiveness in Twitter. Besides that, you can't go wrong with a developer who's in touch with the community.
xavierv
· 1 year ago
Bravo! Acquiring such a cool tool must be exciting!
Sol Young
· 1 year ago
Congrats Loic - My first request: Please add XMPP instead of web service based pulls.
vectorlyme
· 1 year ago
I just switched over to twhirl from what I was using... just because of what you said. Geez, I thought I only did that for Steve Jobs :) Congrats, looks like a great decision! Kev!
Nick
· 1 year ago
Congrats Loic! That's a briliant move. Twhirl currently supports cross posting to Pownce and Jaiku. Are you thinking to extend this to other similar services as well?
Dave Jones
· 1 year ago
Who the fuck is going to buy seesmic. Probably the prats in seattle - microsoft- given their support for techcruch50. Microsoft are the new internet saps willing to pay/support anything web 2.0 related just to be preceived as cool. FYI any entrepreneur startup CEO gear up to sell to Microsoft.
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Smart...disqus next :)
Ouriel
· 1 year ago
well done Loic. This is really a smart move.
daryn
· 1 year ago
Congratulations Loic! A unified desktop client, with support for both twitter and seesmic, is definitely a step in the right direction to gain wider use, and twhirl is by far the best twitter client out there.
Janet Tokerud
· 1 year ago
You both rock! Thanks a ton for the 20 reasons so quickly and so authentically. I like your thinking! Good luck. Love Twhirl and am looking forward to twhirl + seesmic.
S+S is the right move. at the short run that's the best move you could have done. But come one AIR is the past, AIR is too long to DL/install, AIR is limited. You maybe should have did a partnership with Microsoft to develop a kind of Twilhr on silverlight. lighter, future guarantee, support from the big player, almost every PC will have silverlight on it. in addition to that you know how can microsoft invests when they wan to promote their new stuf (I know what I am talking about:! :))
fenin
· 1 year ago
Adobe Flash Player and Silerlight are comparable products. AIR is an entirely different product. Comparing AIR to Silverlight is almost like comparing Java to Javascript.
Edoardo Piccolotto
· 1 year ago
Twirl is cool... what about a Growl integration?
Julio Alonso
· 1 year ago
Congratulations Loic, way to go!
damien
· 1 year ago
that's pretty cool ! I'm looking forward to use it sooner as possible :-)
Patrick
· 1 year ago
Congratulations on the acquisition.
Phil Jeudy
· 1 year ago
He has the French version. I made it, took me so much time ;-)
Armand
· 1 year ago
Good on ya Loic! Great acquisition and will be a very exciting integration between the two... Made me remember what you were thinking of last week when you were doing your social maps video... by the way, I'm in the process of doing my social map as well...
2/3 of the code is done for you via http://twitter.com/help/api so basically they paid for code that most spin-up for giggles. All the power to the authors of twhirl and not discounting it’s value to the twitter scene? but hyping this up as an acquisition is pushing it a little.
It’s like someone writing a blog post everytime some buys a template from Monster Templates.
“…Seesmic acquires a PSD from Monster Templates, here’s 20 reasons why..”
1. It’s already done. 2. It’s cheap. 3. I need some PR.. 4. I really need some PR. 5. I got friends at Adobe whom need AIR installs. 6. See the above 5 and repeat until you reach 20.
- Scott Barnes Note: this opinion is of my own and not of my employer, Microsoft.
Mark Evans
· 1 year ago
Loic,
Congrats, I guess, on the deal but I still don't know the strategic reason that Seesmic bought Thwirl, which plans in a different and competitive market. Does Seesmic simply want a solid foothold in the Twitter ecosystem? Why make this deal as opposed to buying a video company?
rbazinet
· 1 year ago
Does it's integration with Pownce and Jaiku matter at all? It is the only Twitter client doing that right now. I think this is a huge advantage for Twhirl.
David Berrebi
· 1 year ago
Very good idea!
Michelle
· 1 year ago
Now could you guys convince Twitter to ease up on the API restrictions so I may see more tweets in Twhirl. ;)
Bryan Woods
· 1 year ago
Yep, I run Twhirl on Linux with hardly any hiccups.
Andrew Badera
· 1 year ago
Congrats to both parties.
dc crowley
· 1 year ago
*21* You now not only piggyback Twitter, but Pownce and Jaiku as well! If anything had happened to twitter up to now Seesmic would be in trouble (at least for a while). Twhirl spreads you around. Great move
mager
· 1 year ago
I love Twhirl. I am glad it's in good hands.
dc crowley
· 1 year ago
@SteveSmith leave me alone, I want to sound interesting. It gives meaning to my pathetic little life :p
nicolasschriver
· 1 year ago
Congrats Loic. I think that it makes a lot of sense for Seesmic.
Tchefari
· 1 year ago
Loic or somebody else can tell me which software is used to get moving screenshot (as in the video background) ?
Thanks :))
jyri
· 1 year ago
v+ nice Loic
Loic Lemeur
· 1 year ago
Thank you all for your good comments! Tchefari I do not know but will ask :)
GregOne
· 1 year ago
Congrats Loic, it seems like a very good move!
Steve Smith
· 1 year ago
Who cares you sad geeks. I'm skiing in whistler and have never used either seemic or twhirl and guess what my life is not any worse. I'm not a fat over weight blog wanker like arrington, scoble, calacanis and others. Logoff and get a real life you bunch of sado's
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Daniel
http://www.palluxo.com
Smart move
That's a great acquisition! Looking forward to more good things from twhirl. Congrats, Marco.
Was equally impressed by Marco's responsiveness in Twitter. Besides that, you can't go wrong with a developer who's in touch with the community.
Kev!
AIR is an entirely different product. Comparing AIR to Silverlight is almost like comparing Java to Javascript.
cheers,
Armand
Absolutely awesome!!
Everybody wants a great future for Seesmic!
www.enriqueburgos.com
2/3 of the code is done for you via http://twitter.com/help/api so basically they paid for code that most spin-up for giggles. All the power to the authors of twhirl and not discounting it’s value to the twitter scene? but hyping this up as an acquisition is pushing it a little.
It’s like someone writing a blog post everytime some buys a template from Monster Templates.
“…Seesmic acquires a PSD from Monster Templates, here’s 20 reasons why..”
1. It’s already done.
2. It’s cheap.
3. I need some PR..
4. I really need some PR.
5. I got friends at Adobe whom need AIR installs.
6. See the above 5 and repeat until you reach 20.
-
Scott Barnes
Note: this opinion is of my own and not of my employer, Microsoft.
Congrats, I guess, on the deal but I still don't know the strategic reason that Seesmic bought Thwirl, which plans in a different and competitive market. Does Seesmic simply want a solid foothold in the Twitter ecosystem? Why make this deal as opposed to buying a video company?
Thanks :))