Twitter Friday: The Twitter Effect
Do you remember a site called Digg? This is a site that has been very successful in 2006. A few years earlier a site called Slashdot was that popular. Both sites exist today and are used by some fringe groups. Back in their heydays they have been notorious for their “effect”, like in “Slashdot effect” or “Digg effect”.
It basically meant that in the best or rather worst case your website was taken down by a huge number of users accessing your site at the same time. It happened when your site went popular on the respective frontpages.
In 2009 the frontpage metaphor taken from newspapers has been overcome. There is no real frontpage on Twitter. There is only a stream or a myriad of streams. Still some tweets or links get popular here as well.
