{"id":1587,"date":"2007-07-26T23:01:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/26\/fred-shows-some-vc-love-for-twitter\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T23:01:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:01:29","slug":"fred-shows-some-vc-love-for-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/26\/fred-shows-some-vc-love-for-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred shows some VC love for Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under the &#8220;No Surprise&#8221; heading in the VC database: Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, the guy who is probably the most closely identified with Web 2.0 apps &#8212; if only because he seems to have one of every kind of Web widget in the sidebars on his blog &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/taking-bite-out-of-big-apple.html\">has funded Twitter<\/a>, the micro-blogging service with the 140-character limit. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4197axwj5mt.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4197axwj5mt.jpg' \/>For anyone unfamiliar with Twitter, it is like the status update on Facebook but without the Facebook part. It is a quick way of updating people on what you&#8217;re doing\/thinking\/feeling\/eating, etc. If you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/scobleizer\">Robert Scoble<\/a>, it&#8217;s a way for you to spam thousands of people with details on your every thought and movement (just kidding, Scobie), and there are add-ons like the audio Twittergram and so on that I don&#8217;t really know anything about. At the moment, with Twitter and Facebook and Pownce.com and MSN and GTalk and half a dozen other things, I have so many status update services that I&#8217;m overwhelmed. <\/p>\n<p>In other words, I&#8217;ve pretty much given up, and Twitter now just pushes blog posts out to whoever is following me, and I track some other people&#8217;s blog posts the same way. Is it worth investing in? Fred <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionsquareventures.com\/2007\/07\/twitter.html\">seems to think so<\/a> (and so do Marc Andreessen and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/26\/twitter-gets-their-venture-round\/\">some others<\/a>), although even Fred admits he&#8217;s not sure what the business model is. I&#8217;m not sure either.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this one under the &#8220;No Surprise&#8221; heading in the VC database: Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, the guy who is probably the most closely identified with Web 2.0 apps &#8212; if only because he seems to have one of every kind of Web widget in the sidebars on his blog &#8212; has funded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/26\/fred-shows-some-vc-love-for-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred shows some VC love for Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}