Twitter bottlenecks & potential

I thought this was interesting. Tweets are routed through a central server, unlike Facebook or Microsoft Outlook Exchange... that's why Twitter slows down sometimes. Users with a lot of followers, like ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos, have so many followers (nearly 1.4 million) that the bottleneck at the server. Twitter doesn't limit the number of followers - in comparison, Facebook and other social network tools limit friends to 5,000 and require reciprocal friending.

This author also suggests that Twitter could make money along the lines of how Microsoft makes $2 billion a year, with minimal subscription and access fees.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/04/twitter-should-decentralize-and-make-money-via-twitter-server/

Irrationaly consumer: I still love google more!

Again, the reading is here

I guess economists will have a word on my title. You prefer google because that's different tastes, so you enjoy more utility. Come on, I know I'm being irrational!

For:

• Microsoft's conspiracy: I guess Microsoft won't really do it so ostentatiously, but they might make their system support their search engine better than support google. This IS happening. Microsoft developed ActiveX. It's totally not standarized and MS is the only company using it. Other browser can support it, but never as good as I.E. does. (So if one developed a page with ActiveX, user can almost only use I.E.)
• Google is only making money on Ads. (They also do source out actually.) Well, silly stuff like google calendar, igoogle are not really profitible for Google. But that's why google is cooler than other company! Maybe they're not makeing money on it, but isn't it a good way to form the company's reputation?
  

Against:

• Google's 20% policy: When I was an engineer-major student, I always dreamed entering a company like google, because at least I have more possibility to do what I'd like to do. Google's 20% policy might sounds silly, but that's how google absorb smart engineers