Facebook status message. Enter Twitter. Exit axod.
Hi. Good to see the CEO of the company posting on this thread. Just in case you were not aware, Twitter launched before you were able to tag other people in your Facebook status. Tagging a person, however, is just one of many differences between Facebook status and Twitter. There are no hash tags, no lists, and no trending topics on Facebook. More importantly, on Twitter you can get direct access to the words of celebrities and other notable people. On Facebook typically all you would see would be an HR maintained fan page.
There's a big difference between that and getting a direct line via Twitter. I'll give a concrete example. A couple of days ago I was able to ask Jason of 37signals whether he knew of a copy of his talk from Start Up School besides Justin.TV. He responded to me within an hour. Interaction like this is not possible via Facebook status updates. It seems to me that your claim that Twitter built something that already existed isn't true.
As a side note, your tone seems a bit confrontational for what I would have expected from a YC CEO.
My tone, which obviously text does not convey, was playful and light-hearted.
We all know you don't post news to YC to get fluffy love comments, you post it to get 100 reasons why you suck. We don't take it personally.
Ah, my apologies then. :)
Please share the answer.
How are you different from any general video sharing site on the net?
Facebook consider "Able to share a video in status update" as a small add-on feature. Why when it's in the twitter world is it considered a good idea for a startup :/ Surely you can appreciate to some, this seems bizarre.
Most of these comments are very narrow in vision. Vidly has a long-term vision that only begins with Twitter. We'll be sure to keep the community posted as we continue to release new features and slowly reveal the direction of the company.
We appreciate the doubt, without it, we wouldn't be having any fun.