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Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Palluxo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:45:53 -0000

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.

Daniel
http://www.palluxo.com

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

GregOne — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:48:46 -0000

Congrats Loic, it seems like a very good move!

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Loic Le Meur — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:26:53 -0000

Thank you all for your good comments! Tchefari I do not know but will ask :)

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

jyri — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:42:39 -0000

v+ nice Loic

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Tchefari — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:08:28 -0000

Loic or somebody else can tell me which software is used to get moving screenshot (as in the video background) ?

Thanks :))

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

nicolasschriver — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:47:34 -0000

Congrats Loic. I think that it makes a lot of sense for Seesmic.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

dc crowley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:01:02 -0000

@SteveSmith leave me alone, I want to sound interesting. It gives meaning to my pathetic little life :p

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

mager — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:55:11 -0000

I love Twhirl. I am glad it's in good hands.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

dc crowley — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:08:25 -0000

*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

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Andrew Badera — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:14:56 -0000

Congrats to both parties.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Bryan Woods — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:01:42 -0000

Yep, I run Twhirl on Linux with hardly any hiccups.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Chel Wolverton — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:50:00 -0000

Now could you guys convince Twitter to ease up on the API restrictions so I may see more tweets in Twhirl. ;)

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

David Berrebi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:45:00 -0000

Very good idea!

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Netliving — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:50:52 -0000

Congratulations Loic, I understand It's one of the best movement in microblogging... Awesome for the users too!

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Rob Bazinet — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:38:01 -0000

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.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Mark Evans — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:18:55 -0000

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?

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Scott Barnes — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:13:56 -0000

Am I the only one with perspective here?

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.

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Scott Barnes
Note: this opinion is of my own and not of my employer, Microsoft.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Enrique Burgos — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:22:10 -0000

Felicidades Loic!

Absolutely awesome!!

Everybody wants a great future for Seesmic!

www.enriqueburgos.com

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Armand — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:40:53 -0000

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...

cheers,
Armand

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

fenin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:39:36 -0000

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.

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Phil Jeudy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:35:23 -0000

He has the French version. I made it, took me so much time ;-)

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Patrick — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:25:39 -0000

Congratulations on the acquisition.

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damien — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:19:52 -0000

that's pretty cool ! I'm looking forward to use it sooner as possible :-)

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Julio Alonso — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:06:41 -0000

Congratulations Loic, way to go!

Re: 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl

Edoardo Piccolotto — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:00:52 -0000

Twirl is cool... what about a Growl integration?