Comments on: Twitter, the unlikely flagship app for Ruby http://webgambit.com/2007/04/14/twitter-the-unlikely-flagship-app-for-ruby/ Thoughts on Software Development from Karthik Hariharan Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Karthik http://webgambit.com/2007/04/14/twitter-the-unlikely-flagship-app-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Karthik Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:04:31 +0000 http://www.webgambit.com/?p=26#comment-46 <p><p>The posting seems to be okay (except for the fact that the Googletalk integration breaks all the time).</p></p> <p><p>The big sore point for me has been adding followers through the web interface...I think I've added the same people 6 times and it still doesn't register.</p></p>

The posting seems to be okay (except for the fact that the Googletalk integration breaks all the time).

The big sore point for me has been adding followers through the web interface…I think I’ve added the same people 6 times and it still doesn’t register.

]]> By: mark http://webgambit.com/2007/04/14/twitter-the-unlikely-flagship-app-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-45 mark Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:04:18 +0000 http://www.webgambit.com/?p=26#comment-45 <p><p>Luckily, I think twitter is the kind of web-app that can actually afford to be slow without making users so upset they leave. If it was an email client, a search engine, or any kind of a more complex application, people would leave it in favor of a better, faster solution, but since its both so simple and so unique, I think people tolerate it's slow speed. I for one really don't care that it's slow, especially since using IM or twitteriffic to update is so fast, I don't care how long the back-end takes to catch up.</p></p>

Luckily, I think twitter is the kind of web-app that can actually afford to be slow without making users so upset they leave. If it was an email client, a search engine, or any kind of a more complex application, people would leave it in favor of a better, faster solution, but since its both so simple and so unique, I think people tolerate it’s slow speed. I for one really don’t care that it’s slow, especially since using IM or twitteriffic to update is so fast, I don’t care how long the back-end takes to catch up.

]]>