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Comment by kristofferR | Hacker News Reader

99,9% of people doesn't care at all about how technically innovative something is, they only care about how useful it is. And Twitter is incredibly useful.

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Well, it's not incredibly useful right now, and it would be had it been a single node and not the entire damned thing.

"Incredibly useful" would imply that if you told me about Twitter, I wouldn't believe you. As much as I wish it were otherwise, it's not that hard to believe that someone invented IRC over HTTP and gave it a silly name.

Christ, enough with the pedantry. I'm getting sick of all the pedants on HN critiquing idioms and common phrases.

Did you understand what the GP meant? Yes. Did you need to point out to the world your complete mastery of the English language? No.

The GP's point was that Twitter is useful, despite it's relatively low score on "innovative new technology" scale.

Many people, myself included, were skeptical of the value of Twitter until they used it. In that sense, we literally did not believe how useful Twitter was. Also, Twitter is almost nothing like IRC in any respect other than being an electronic communication medium.

> Many people, myself included, were skeptical of the value of Twitter until they used it.

I'm still skeptical and I have used it.

I think that's okay. He said Many, not Everyone. Right?

People don't expect "incredible" to mean "not credible" anymore.

That's literally the most awesome thing I've read today, for all intensive purposes!

..... for all intents and purposes.

Christ, enough with the pedantry.

If it once was "credible" but no longer is, perhaps a more appropriate term is "uncredible" or "decredible".

Of course, that woudl imply that the act of removing credibility from something would be "decrediblizaiton" or "decredencing".

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