The geriatric media moguls in Sun Valley don’t get it.
When you see Twitter, the fastest growing Internet site, with more than 22 million visitors and over 150 million visits, you don’t need to be very smart to understand what these old media guys don’t catch on to.
It’s the audience, stupid!
How can you minimize the Twitter global phenomenon?
How can you say that “I am not interested in this”?
How can you be so arrogant?
How can you be so myopic?
How can you be so short-minded?
Well, they said the same about Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and hundreds of innovative new technologies and tools that today rule the media universe.
Just remember furious Rupert Murdoch’s question to his board of directors a few years ago:
“Why the hell didn’t we invent Yahoo!?”
Yes, why haven’t you, the kings of the media universe, invented almost anything?
You just buy, copy and follow.
Not innovate.
I don’t know, of course, and I don’t know anything about the co- founder and CEO of Twitter, but as an early user of his 140-character revolution, I am with him.
And I am very impressed by Evan Williams and his gentlemanly manners in not responding yesterday to all these stupid comments about “where is the Twitter business model?”
Chapeau!
UPDATE: In the past Twitter – which has more than 30m users worldwide – has turned down offers from a variety of companies, including an approach from Facebook valued at $500m.