Loic don't depend on that "authority" site, it's not all it's cracked up to be!!

In my most recent post Loic was wanting to be able to search by authority and be able to find information that is really high on "authority". I will guess he is happy with "Twitority" because now you can search base on the so called "Authority".

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]I say this will not show the really juicy stories out there. You see, most really good juicy stories might not be picked up by twitter for a few to a couple hours. If you want to find the really good stuff on twitter you won't find it with authority but by the people who might not have any or little authority.

So if you think Authority is all that and more, I say it's nothing to "write home about". I just worry people will see this and start flocking to this system. Once people start searching by authority that will get people to want to be higher on this so called authority idea. So what will happen, people will want to get more authority and possibly buy Authority. This is a far far possible outcome of having this so called authority.

[ad#cricket-1]I don't think it will happen once people see how flawed it is and see it. They will flocked to something else, you see that all the time on twitter. I will wait judgment on this new site and see how it goes but I don't think it will work. One thing I wonder is the how this site will keep going with it just been created so rashly and without much thought. There has to be a revenue stream coming from somewhere? Could of been Loic who made the VC happen? I'll let you decide for yourself although I think it points to him.

I think Scoble is thinking the same thing?  Could of been something to make even more controversy or could it been just happen stance?  What say you Robert?

Scoble is Right and Arrington, and Loic are wrong about "authority"?

This weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having "authority" search functions.  I say this is totally not going to work because some factors.  I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall.   Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more "authority" and because he is looking for good content.   I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company.   I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company.  I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.

[ad#cricket-1-1]Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this.  I have to wonder why he wants to agree.  You see he is also into content and understand that if the "authority" for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews.  I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content.   Also that would mean his blog post would have more "authority" then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn't see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back.   So we have these two wanting more "authority" and more content.

Then we have Scoble and his blog post.  Now let's talk about this from where scoble says it's a bad idea.  Scoble talks about gaming the system, and if you think back to Digg killing all the high number of members because they were using scripts.  Here we are again with regards to twitter.  Now if we have authority people are going to game the system because no matter how hard we try it will be a competition.

We have botnets and we have bots on twitter.  It really isn't hard to have a bot on twitter, and that is where we have a problem.  You see if we have "authority" and we want to game the system.  We just have bots with authority and by having other bots subscribe to each other.  There lies the problem.  People will easily be able to game te system and create even more trouble finding the content they are so dearly looking for.   Now I don't usually get into the whole "he's right and he wrong" disputes but this one has to be brought to people attentions.

I say this when did "Authority" stop people from talking about the really important stuff happening in the world.   We have people from Friendfeed talking about this and we have people from twitter talking about this als.  Loic and Arrington need to learn content isn't hard to find, it will always be there.  You just have to open your eyes to see.   The way I see it, we have a coin and we have the good and bad.  We should just keep the bad out of there and keep the good stuff we already have.   This goes in the bad idea bin for the time.