Comments on: V3.com VS TwitterCounter.com

By: Peter Robinett

Peter Robinett — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:32:08 +0000

Well, look at it this way: you’ve probably made more on TwitterCounter than Twitter has ever made!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:12:49 +0000

He he he, thanks Scott, I meant the “Fake it ’til you make it” nickname as a compliment and am happy to adopt it for myself too.

In general I’m too perplexed to be annoyed if people don’t get it.

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:04:03 +0000

I believe the issue is, and moreso in Holland than some places, that people don’t know how to differentiate between the empty dotcom BS that has no hope and the empty dotcom BS being started by people that can execute. You nicknamed me “Fake it ’til you make it,” but the same applies to you.

However, I love this phenomenon rather than get annoyed by it. If everyone thinks I’m doing something smart, there’s way too much competition.

By: Mike Verbruggen

Mike Verbruggen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:02:54 +0000

Boris thank you!

I like your way of doing business.

By: David Petherick

David Petherick — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:00:18 +0000

Great blog Boris, and interesting to compare the two projects. I think twittercounter is great – and I know from tracking on my own sites and blogs that the counter itself helps not only get ads to you, but draw more followers to me. So we both benefit.

Both concepts are broadly ones that appeal to human vanity – we want followers, and we want to be seen to be popular – as in 1997, we wanted a snappy, easy-to-remember URL, and registering domains and setting up our own sites was too complicated and too expensive.

By the way, I really like the new look of the blog – very clean and cool.

White space is good.