The Internet is crying. Marc Andreessen , one of the founders of Netscape and now an investor in companies like Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare and LinkedIn, is back on Twitter and he’s breaking the mold. What’s going on?
Tweeting without end
Andreessen has a habit of sending out multiple tweets in a row that are provided with an increasing number. He has a story to tell and he can't do it in 140 characters, so his tweets have a counter running along with them. The only problem is that his tweets don't indicate when his story ends. And that's not possible. The internet is outraged by it. If he has something sensible to say, he should do it via a blog post and not via Twitter. Shame on Andreessen, shame on you!
Buzzfeed stoked the fire this week with a blog post about armenia mobile phone number list this so-called Tweetstorm. According to Charlie Warzel, the blog's author, Andreessen is about to change the nature of Twitter forever.
tweet storm
Example of a 'tweetstorm'
Power users like Andreessen, Twitterers with a large number of followers, can pollute the timelines of many Twitter users with their tweetstorm. Warzel sees a future in which celebrities, journalists and politicians use Twitter as the next broadcast instrument to win souls for themselves.