Loic Le Meur has stirred up some Twitterati dust with this anti-egalitarian declaration:
We need filtering and search by authority. We’re not equal on Twitter, as we’re not equal on blogs and on the web.
Le Meur came to this conclusion after 7000 Tweets were posted during the two days of LeWeb 3, an Internet conference in Paris. He couldn’t get to the good stuff quickly enough; hence his position.
Warren Sukernek of Twittermaven rightly says, “I’m sure he had no problem taking the money of the unimportant that attended LeWeb.”
Silicon Valley journalist, Sarah Lacy, says:
I swear, I really do like Loic and think Seesmic is one of the last original Web 2.0 ideas of the Web 2.0 wave. But he’s completely wrong in this idea that you should rank search on Twitters based on “authority,” i.e. how many followers you have. So wrong that I’m guessing this is another stunt to gin up “controversy.” No one could be this nakedly egotistical and self-serving.
I suppose controversy sells, but at what cost?
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