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Twitter’s Jumped the Shark

For users with large numbers of Twitter followers, the service has become irrelevant. Is this the beginning of the end for the short message service we have allegedly loved?
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1/28/2011 3 comments
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Paul Whyte
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Sunday January 30, 2011 11:02:35 AM
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Hey Scott,

I listened to your vblog and there i no segment wherein you supplied any numbers to justify this introduction to your vblog:

"For users with large numbers of Twitter followers, the service has become irrelevant".

There is no mentioned of twitter users with large numbers of followers who have come out and declared the microblogging service irrelevant to their respective brands. This is more an expression of your personal distaste for Twitter and what you hope it will become in the very near future. While you are very much entitle to air your opinion and that your opinions have a remote possibility of coming to pass, the current reality does not support your prognosis. 

Scott Koegler
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Friday January 28, 2011 12:29:03 PM
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Jumping the Shark comes from the TV show Happy Days. Fonzie literally water skied and jumped over a shark. It was deemed the moment that the show started to go downhill in relevancy and popularity.

Then there's TV GUide's JumptheShark.com that tracks TV shows that have been deemed to have followed the same path.

Funny stuff.

Michael Singer
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Friday January 28, 2011 12:20:07 PM
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Scott, I love your premise, but as a person who is a shameless self-promoter and one who pushes IE content to the Twittersphere, I couldn't help but poke fun.

What do you mean Twitter has jumped the shark? It is the shark!

That's funny, I think I'll tweet that one... and this video post.

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