Comments on Digital Daaroo - by Saurabh Nanda: How can Google beat Twitter at the social game?

I think google plus can compete with twitter. Only...

2011-12-13T11:41:22.242+05:30

I think google plus can compete with twitter. Only if plus can cover breaking events outside their circles.

Google has been trying and failing. I'm not su...

2011-11-29T06:11:46.087+05:30

Google has been trying and failing. I'm not sure even the big G can penetrate a market already dominated by established players.

Can Google beat Twitter at the current state of th...

2011-11-08T14:37:28.600+05:30

Can Google beat Twitter at the current state of their social platforms? A resounding no. It seems like Twitter is on a different level with real-time updates and has become a global phenomenon. Google, despite its efficient and booming ecosystem, just cannot be on par with the rate tweets are spreading.

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The competition of these social media sites is def...

2011-09-21T15:04:12.868+05:30

The competition of these social media sites is definitely an issue nowadays. They're all playing the social game and they should play it fairly.

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RSS feeds are available to both Tweets and Blog...

2011-04-26T16:50:06.035+05:30
RSS feeds are available to both Tweets and Blogs really so I don't see how "google would beat twitter" except if it were allowed to search through twitter timelines (which it's doing now) so twitter becomes a subset of the google ecosystem enabled by search.

Have you tried subscribing to an RSS feed provided by Twitter? The updates are sometimes delayed by 24 hours! Now, I don't know where the delay actually is - at Google Reader's end (subscriber) or at Twitter's end (publisher).

Just one small change in pushing adoption for a pub-sub architecture like PubSubHubbub can remove such friction points and can make blogs + RSS feeds a compelling comprehensive blogging platform.

I'm not sure if I agree that Twitter=SMS &...

2011-04-26T16:45:33.470+05:30
I'm not sure if I agree that Twitter=SMS & Blog=email. Both, SMS & email are one-to-one private communication channels, not public broadcasts. Blogs & Twitter are essentially public broadcasts.

Technically, there's nothing stopping you from publishing blog-posts on a real-time basis within 140chars (micro-blogging, essentially). There's nothing stating that blogs have to be lengthy opinion pieces. However, I agree, that the current tools around blogging do promote this usage.

That's *exactly* where Google can differentiate. It can build a kick-ass, but integrated product for traditional blogging, micro-blogging, and subscribing to RSS feeds - all rolled into one.

Twitter = SMS. Blog = Email would be a right way o...

2011-04-26T15:17:57.320+05:30
Twitter = SMS. Blog = Email would be a right way of comparing it?

What twitter does that blogs can't match at the moment is real time updating. Blogs are opinion pieces or lengthy articles not just links. Delicious on real time update could be Twitter (on a purely comparison basis).

RSS feeds are available to both Tweets and Blogs really so I don't see how "google would beat twitter" except if it were allowed to search through twitter timelines (which it's doing now) so twitter becomes a subset of the google ecosystem enabled by search.

Does that make sense?

Karthik, some of your arguments hold true for the ...

2011-04-26T13:54:40.451+05:30
Karthik, some of your arguments hold true for the kind of user interactions that Facebook enables, not for Twitter.

Twitter is fundamentally a medium to broadcast your comments.

I have a different thought on how Google can beat ...

2011-04-26T13:51:35.700+05:30
I have a different thought on how Google can beat Facebook, but that's for a different post.

Twitter's biggest use-case is one-to-many broadcasts. Blogs & RSS have been allowing users to achieve the exact same thing for 4-5 years before Twitter made it big. In fact most tweets are actually link-offs to blog posts. So, in my experience, Twitter is just acting as a glorified form of RSS feeds, where the content & comments on the content have been merged into one stream of tweets.

I feel this use-case can be solved much better using blogs + RSS feeds. The ecosystem can be open. There can be more room for players to innovate. And from Google's standpoint, since the content is open (and searchable) they will always win -- search is their strength, monetizing content is their strength.

All that Google needs to do is roll Blogger & Google Reader into one seamless kickass product and market it well.

The fundamental premise/offering is different. A m...

2011-04-26T13:32:18.242+05:30
The fundamental premise/offering is different. A more open searchable web against a closed community. Fundamentally they cannot compete. They can flow from one system to another perhaps but Facebook banks on social recommendation. What does your friend think about the product. If you want specs of the product, Google's still the better place to go to. So I think it's a layer addition and the solution you have put there will not solve that fundamental question.

I would start with the question, why should google beat twitter (and btw I think facebook is far far more social than twitter is really, leveraging many to many is >>>>>>>>>> than one to many) at all?