为什么推特很重要
为什么推特很重要
2009年4月
奥姆·马利克是许多问为什么推特如此重要的人中最新的一个。
原因是它是一种新的消息传递协议，你不指定接收者。新协议很少见。或者更准确地说，真正流行起来的新协议很少。常用的只有少数几个：TCP/IP（互联网）、SMTP（电子邮件）、HTTP（网络）等等。所以任何新协议都是大事。但推特是由私人公司拥有的协议。那就更罕见了。
奇怪的是，推特创始人缓慢将其货币化的事实，从长远来看可能被证明是一个优势。因为他们没有试图过度控制它，推特对每个人来说都感觉像以前的协议。人们忘记了它是一家私人公司拥有的。这一定使推特更容易传播。
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
April 2009
Om Malik is the most recent of many people to ask why Twitter is such a big deal.
The reason is that it’s a new messaging protocol, where you don’t specify the recipients. New protocols are rare. Or more precisely, new protocols that take off are. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That’s even rarer.
Curiously, the fact that the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an advantage. Because they haven’t tried to control it too much, Twitter feels to everyone like previous protocols. One forgets it’s owned by a private company. That must have made it easier for Twitter to spread.