Since I seem to be on a roll with writing disappointment logs, I may as well write about my biggest online disappointment of late. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it really is the end of Twine. =( And this time it’s for good….
Since the April of last year, I pretty much disconnected myself from Twine. I still used certain aspects of Twine for storing my data, but just that. Unfortunately at that point not only the most important features of Twine were no longer working, but the RN had officially terminated all our feedback channels, showing clearly how much they no longer cared about improving on the original idea of what Twine.com was supposed to be. I think it was obvious… from that time that things were not going to go the way they originally were supposed to, that Twine was never going to become what it was promised to be. I just didn’t want to believe it…. I was waiting and hoping for Twine 2.0 to actually work!
Well guess what. During the 2.5 months that I was in Iran, the news has been published that Twine 2.0 is going to be just a semantic search engine. Everything else is gone. The social / interest network, bookmarking, twines….. everything is going to be GONE. Just… just like that. Well, you can imagine my disappointment…. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. x(
I’m still not a 100% sure what they’re going to be doing with our content stored on Twine. There’s talk of APIs…. ah well. Honestly, I don’t believe there’s any hopes of Twine.com every becoming something successful anymore. Why? Well… when Twine started to come to existence, it had a few points going for it. It was a new and great idea, and there weren’t all these competitors doing a better job of it out there. It hadn’t yet disappointed the entire www, and it had a bunch of people like “us” willing to spend that kind of time, effort and energy for making it better. And now, well, it has neither. Between Google, Bing and a gzillion other search engines many of them pretty interesting, Twine is going to be lost.
Hmmmm… I don’t care anymore anyway. The way I see it, Twine was simply never about what I thought it was about anyway…..
Well cheers to us though. =) I mean the friends I’ve been lucky enough to gain through this whole Twine deal. This is the only thing that makes it all worth. Twine can disappear for all I care. I have kept my connections…. And of course there’s always other means of collecting and sharing our interests. And right now, it’s called Diigo. I’ve started giving Diigo a try now… and so far I’m VERY impressed. I’m going to wait and see how things go with that…. I’ll write more about it once I develop a more thorough view of it. =)
And now, lets forget about Twine…. =P
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY. =))
