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The problem isn't technical. (Any three readers of HN could bang together something "much better" than Twitter in N weeks!)

The problem is getting three hundred million dumbasses to use it.




Accounting for hyperbole I agree to a certain point, however:

> The problem is getting three hundred million dumbasses to use it.

You would probably be more likely to succeed in that if you start thinking of them as humans, humans who aren't familiar with computers, don't have much time etc etc ;-)

Oh, and that guy with the social network said something like that at some point and it is now the most famous quote from him.




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