• MetalFingers@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it was definitely the super long beta period where you needed an invite killed it. I knew a ton of people who were interested that gave up

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      1 year ago

      That’s easy to say now, but Orkut (another Google social network, mostly used in Brazil) also had a beta invite system… And that helped it grow tremendously. The secrecy and “status” of getting invited made people go wild - they would even sell invites.

      The strategy can work. It’s just very timing sensitive.