For example, online political fundraising has become increasingly more effective in past decade. By separating the development of the motivation to action from the mechanics of the action itself -- the political rallying from the card swiping -- effective politicians play to the strengths of both the online and offline mediums.
Targeting a group like this makes it more believable. I mean, if Amazon was banning books about 'successful entrepreneurs', most people would have thought it was a bug in the site, not malicious intent.
I find the app store to be highly competitive. The competition drives down price, which drives down incentive for developers to put too much time into a single app. This provides what many consumers are looking for on the device: $0.99 apps that will entertain them 5 minutes.
I like how the pics page lets you see larger amount of data (pictures) at once than is possible just using Twitter, although you might want to check out the layout on that page in Chrome -- some of the text gets covered by ads.
Other than that, I'm not sure what the site offers me. Are the News / Tech / Gossip pages simply custom lists of people that are followed? Why do I want to use your lists instead of using my Twitter account, which I've already customized to include the people I'm most interested in following?
If your target audience is people don't twitter but might be into it, they're either going to end up moving on to actually using Twitter, or decide it's not for them. In either case, they won't keep coming back to your site.
Are the News / Tech / Gossip pages simply custom lists of people that are followed?
This - you don't seem to explain exactly what news/tech/gossip actually is or how you define breaking. Maybe for a non-twitter user they don't care but as a twitter user, I do. If that's your secret sauce, I still think you need to find some way of helping visitors understand just why your 'news' etc categories/lists are authoritative.
news/tech/gossip are based off wefollow.com rankings for various tags
why use them instead of my twitter account
- most people on the internet dont have twitter accounts - thus don't have a way to follow this tweets
-- 200M facebnook users V 1M~ twitter users
- twittergrep.com aims to present the best of twitter to the rest of the net population
re audience moving up
- agreed could be an issue - but i think there will always be more people who dont use twitter and are after upto the second news than people with twitter accounts
re people getting twitter accounts
- if they do thats great - i see TwitterGrep.com more in the vein as channel surfing twitter - or like just looking at the front page of the NY Times to see whats happening
- not as serious as getting a account and following all their tweets - just picking a bit hear and there type of browsing habit
re how will they find they site
- good question - im doing my best at PR'ing the site :)
re why they would wont to
- why do people go to nytimes.com, news,ycombinator.com etc..
- they want to see whats happening re stuff they are interested in
- if you want to see whats happening in the tweetosphere check out TwitterGrep.com
On the one hand, there may be a legitimate argument to be made that the wireless networks just don't have the bandwidth to allow users to use whatever kinds of data-heavy applications they want. On the other hand, that could be solved without violating the Broadband Policy Statement by throttling heavy users' connections.
This is why I came back here VLC, the free software media player can play region encoded DVDs. I can make sure it DID that sometimes back. Never wanted to check it recently for some reason.
