Menshn - Louise Mensch launches a 'rival to twitter'

[ItWillNeverWork]

Also, doesn't Mensch have some sort of day job she should be doing?

Yep. Because of her occupying her time with this hair-brained scheme, she is completely neglecting her job of affecting change via parliament. And if that's not a roaring endorsement of Menshn then I don't know what is.

 

[killer b]

i believe she's fulfilling her day job commitment for the month this evening on question time. with johnny rotten.

 

[butchersapron]

He's going to be crap - but fair play to him for not bottling it and going, yeah, i'll do that.

 

[UrbaneFox]

She should call it bagshawe - as that - essentially - is what it is.

I wonder if the husband's surname has a significant part in the decision to get married, especially if you have a naff maiden name. Is deed poll really the cheaper option?

We should have a survey.

 

[Nylock]

This. Is. Genius.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18518162

To precis, Louise Mensch has launched a 'rival to twitter' - presumably because twitter wasn't quite vacuous enough for her.

It's called Menshn.

Apparently, the name isn't a play on her surname, nor presumably upon Ubermensch, but instead is how 'mention' is pronounced by idiots.

Sadly, US-only, so you'll have to hold back on flaming and trolling for a while yet.

eta: I put it in UK politics as it's more interesting to slag off Mensch than Menshn.

Oh god, my eyes!

 

[DotCommunist]

I hop rotten swears on QT in a flashback to that iconic interview that so enraged one man he broke his own tele

 

[butchersapron]

You know it's friday right?

 

[stuff_it]

Anyone else find it rather ironic that Jewish people use the word 'Mensch' to mean a stand up decent person who you can rely on.....?

TBF knowing that simply makes me more wary of anyone who would use it as their name - like buying a used car from someone who uses the word honest in their name.

 

[elbows]

Or a banker with a precious stone as their surname?

 

[DotCommunist]

TBF knowing that simply makes me more wary of anyone who would use it as their name - like buying a used car from someone who uses the word honest in their name.

and whose address is simply a fax machine number...

 

[stuff_it]

and whose address is simply a fax machine number...

Perhaps she's not actually a real person at all but some sort of prototype AIBot.

 

[Balbi]

Menschbot2010 for the Tories and Ed209 (seats) for Labour.

 

[DotCommunist]

It would have to be a prototype as clearly full sentience has not been achieved.

 

[twentythreedom]

tbh she ain't really all that anyway

 

[elbows]

I am looking to raise a million pounds to develop MyFartsSmellGreat.com

 

[Citizen66]

How should 'mention' be pronounced?

Menshun.

 

[Citizen66]

To be fair, I can see myself spending a lot of time on a site that's a bit like Twitter but organises conversations into groups - call them threads, perhaps - that you can choose to follow and contribute to.

Is there character limits though? Well, there is here but it isn't 170 digits.

 

[el-ahrairah]

and it's over:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/01/luke-bozier-company-shut-down-by-regulators-political-press/

"
And the hat trick of failed ventures could yet become four. A London-based tech site reports:

“The Kernel understands that Twitter rival Menshn, which has been struggling to acquire and retain users after a launch marred by ridicule, is being shuttered after a wave of negative publicity centred its the former co-founder”​

“A source close to Louise Mensch told The Kernel that the site will be taken down in the new year, following a three week notice period for existing users.”"​

 

[chilango]

Ha ha.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

How unexpected.

 

[DaveCinzano]

and it's over:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/01/luke-bozier-company-shut-down-by-regulators-political-press/

"
And the hat trick of failed ventures could yet become four. A London-based tech site reports:

“The Kernel understands that Twitter rival Menshn, which has been struggling to acquire and retain users after a launch marred by ridicule, is being shuttered after a wave of negative publicity centred its the former co-founder”​

“A source close to Louise Mensch told The Kernel that the site will be taken down in the new year, following a three week notice period for existing users.”"​

So that's the much-ridiculed business of an alleged kiddie porn aficionado political turncoat and a chicklit writer-turned-Parliamentarian-slash-high profile slanderer gone to the wall as reported by a website whose own contributors are suing it for non-payment and then rehashed in a blog powered by unpaid interns.

Throw in the Red Penace snapped candid-style in flagrante with Zac Goldsmith banging non-Fairtrade powders off the balcon of her mum's unwilling-but-unpapered Filipina cleaning lady by a Wasp T12-toting ex-Etonian Vice freelancer aiming for desk space at Kings Place and the C21 meejamatrix has truly eaten itself.

 

[elbows]

The Kernel story about Menshn closing is some weeks old, and at the time Mensch denied it. As usual a twitter spat between her and the complete twat who runs the Kernel ensued, but then they found mutual ground by gushing over Thatcher and speaking of being almost moved to tears when meeting their great political idol!

If I were her I would have shit Menshn down as it wasnt going anywhere even before Bozier crashed & burned. But its running costs may be very low so she could feasibly keep it going as a vanity project and to disprove the Kernel stories.

 

[el-ahrairah]

i'd have shit it down too.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Dan U]

this might explain why she is - a day later than the rest of the universe - foaming at the mouth on twatter about the Guardian nonce story. Probably hoping everyone will forget her failed business was started with, erm, an alleged nonce.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

and it's over:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/01/luke-bozier-company-shut-down-by-regulators-political-press/

"
And the hat trick of failed ventures could yet become four. A London-based tech site reports:

“The Kernel understands that Twitter rival Menshn, which has been struggling to acquire and retain users after a launch marred by ridicule, is being shuttered after a wave of negative publicity centred its the former co-founder”​

“A source close to Louise Mensch told The Kernel that the site will be taken down in the new year, following a three week notice period for existing users.”"​

LOL! So much for being the next social media big thing.

 

[butchersapron]

On the ball as ever K_E

 

[Balbi]

Aaaaannnnnd, gone.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I could barely C&P this properly, what with all the tears landing on my keyboard.

It was widely publicised in the days following the hacking of my private email account that I had resigned from menshn, the company I founded and co-own with Louise Mensch. It wasn’t the case that I had resigned as a shareholder, and continue to retain my 50% of the shares in MenschBozier Ltd. However, Louise and I no longer have anything resembling a working relationship, and she no longer wishes to run a company in which I own shares.

I think we call this sort of business practice summary justice. Louise is judge, jury and god all rolled into one, and made a sweeping knee-jerk business decision based on something written online by a malicious hacker. Alas, I am forced to agree that we don’t have a basis for a working relationship, and frankly no longer wish to hold shares in a company she runs.

I had a great time building and launching menshn, despite the mountain-sized buckets of cyber-shit I got for my association with Louise. It was a great experience and some elements of the journey were really fun. I have written about some of them as part of a book on release later in 2013.

Menshn still has a dedicated community of users, and I thank them for their dedication. I’m sorry we weren’t able to turn it into something more sustainable. The idea – Twitter for topics – is a sound one and will be done very successfully by somebody else one day.

http://lukebozier.co.uk/menshn-to-close/

 

[butchersapron]

and made a sweeping knee-jerk business decision based on something written online by a malicious hacker

You were the one who wrote every single word. And you spelled hacker wrong.