By getting everyone in sync, you can generate energy and discussion that you wouldn't when everyone's out of sync. Just compare review discussions on Woot with those on Amazon. - Amit Patel

Also note that laser beams are really bright and powerful because the photons are all in sync. If Twitter is a light bulb, Plinky is a laser. Completely different uses. - Amit Patel

Do cats like to chase Plinky? Anyway, woot has about 1/zillionth Amazon's sales volume, it's basically a cute gimmick by comparison. Is Plinky okay with having 1/zillionth of Twitter's traffic? - ⓞnor

After reading more, my first impression may be wrong. - Amit Patel

@nor: Woot seemed pretty big for a tiny company but I can't get good numbers for it. The only thing I found was a Wikipedia note that said they had a million dollars of sales in a two-day special event. Sure, that's nowhere as big as Amazon, but it's probably a factor of 10 to 1000, not a zillion. I can't speak for Plinky but I'd be happy with a web service that got 1/1000th the traffic of twitter, but provided something new and cool. - Amit Patel

Doh, Wikipedia does have Woot revenue listed, but I never look at the sidebar. $117.4 million in 2007. Amazon's revenue was $10.71 billion in 2007. So that's a factor of 100. - Amit Patel

Wow, I'm surprised Woot's numbers are so high. - Andrew C (✓)

Long live woot! Compare away! - Jason Shellen