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A hearty congrats to Nova, Candice and the whole Twine team. This article in TechCrunch today is a great send-off for the long weekend.
Their meteoric rise has been well-documented along the way, and there are even better things to come with Twine 2.0 i.e T2.
It’s worth noting that Twine has a very strong and active core of maven-like read/write users, alongside a much larger number of people who use the site as a resource to discover and track information around their interests. The engagement for each group looks quite different. But these behaviors are symbiotic and in tandem are fueling the cited growth. In this sense, the model is a lot more like Wikipedia than Friendfeed in terms of how content is created and consumed. In fact, Twine and Friendfeed see each other as complimentary, not competitive.
One aspect of Twine’s success that doesn’t often get mentioned is community management. Twine’s users are passionate and vocal and more importantly, they’re very interested and interesting people.
Just check out the comments here and here for proof. The team has done an excellent job shepherding what has become an incredibly vibrant community. And accordingly, the Twine community itself deserves credit more than anyone.
Disclosure: Twine is a client.
