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Advice to Twitter: Think Ahead

Started by Sid Yadav · 1 year ago

Om Malik spent some time digging up details on Twitter’s supposed funding round and was able to report that they have raised a $15 million round. The VC seems a little unclear but Michael Arrington was able to confirm that, along with their existing VC (Union Squared Ventures), the investor Spark Capital. The amount raised is, almost certainly ... Continue reading »

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  • The best thing the guys behind Twitter could do is re-write the whole of Twitter as a Facebook application. There you go — scalability and up-time issues solved instantly...
  • Admittedly, that's probably some of the more sane advice I've heard given to them.
  • Very nice article - perhaps other startups can learn from Twitter's mistakes
  • fghfh
  • I have been looking at Digg recently too - they do seem to have very good leadership, and good technical direction. It's so easy when companies grow fast to fall into all the "design by committee" issues that so many projects are killed by.
  • Wow. Great, great advice. So true. Much better than the f-you for being down that I've been reading. I'm just amazed with all the hang ups, that people have remained loyal to Twitter. They have jumped ship to pownce or other services.
  • Yes, well said. To survive in this cut throat industry, every startup need to thnik ahead and stay ahead of the competition.
  • I love Twitter . I think they are great. However, those are great advice !
  • I'm just amazed with all the hang ups, that people have remained loyal to Twitter. They have jumped ship to pownce or other services.

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