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Article: Victim of success: What marketers can learn from Twitter's stumbles.(Adage.com)
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- Advertising Age
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- August 4, 2008
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Byline: Pete Blackshaw
What are the limits of consumer loyalty when a particular product or service consistently stumbles or just doesn't work? What if those stumbles are actually due to the immense popularity of the product?
Any fast-growing brand that has seen its infrastructure quiver under the weight of customer demand should look to Web 2.0 darling Twitter for a lesson on what not to do. The message platform allows users to tell a self-selected group what they are doing at any time of the day, using a PC or mobile device to transmit short, 140-character-or-less messages.
A growing percentage of users have publicly sounded the alarm that ...
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