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Post by dmitriid »

wpietri wrote: post #143
dmitriid wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tragedy of Twitter is that: - they were absolutely undoubtedly overstaffed - Musk's approach was absolutely undoubtedly insane shenanigans of a stupid rich cry-baby Both are true at the same time

> they were absolutely undoubtedly overstaffed Oh? What's your evidence here?

Personal anecdotes from any big company :)

There's a second layer to the tragedy. Also applicable to any big company:

- many teams are overstaffed for what they do/produce

- many teams are understaffed for what they do/produce

And this is also true at the same time.

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Post by lawgimenez »

JdeBP wrote: post #127

Ironically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion. * https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163 There are additional reports in the #TwitterDown and #TweetBot hashtags on the FediVerse. * https://tapbots.social/tags/twitterdown * https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot

https://twitter.com/tweetbot/status/1613763746437947394?s=20...

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by marban »

rsynnott wrote: post #240

It's worth noting that we've been here before; back in 2012 Twitter attempted to curtail third party clients (albeit in a far more organised, less haphazard way): https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4 Eventually, they stepped back from the brink, presumably after realising that it was a phenomenally stupid idea (while the fraction of Twitter users using third party clients is likely small, anyone who's anyone uses a…

I was the creator of Twidroyd (First and biggest Android Twitter app w/ ~70% marketshare) and there was a larger story behind the first big anti-3rd party move. Basically we had some plans to bring users over to a new network after we got acquired by Idealab — and Twitter got wind of it. Think Mastodon 2010 style.

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Post by rapnie »

pwdisswordfisha wrote: post #239
JdeBP wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot less than you think. There's no such thing as "on Mastodon" and I picked https://tapbots.social quite carefully, as it's the instance where discussions about TweetBot are most likely to be replicated, given that it's the instance run by Tapbots. One has to pick the right communities, in the FediVerse. https://know.me.uk/tags/tweetbot is a very different story, to pick an example. It's another Mastodon WWW serve…

If we're being so pedantic, you have misspelt 'Fediverse'.

It is not pedantic, as "Mastodon" is massively misnomered, and used where either the Fediverse or its open standard protocol ActivityPub is actually referred to. And as that happens more and more people get confused about this, so it prolongs if not pointed out at any opportunity.

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Post by insomniacity »

marban wrote: post #253
rsynnott wrote: post #240

It's worth noting that we've been here before; back in 2012 Twitter attempted to curtail third party clients (albeit in a far more organised, less haphazard way): https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4 Eventually, they stepped back from the brink, presumably after realising that it was a phenomenally stupid idea (while the fraction of Twitter users using third party clients is likely small, anyone who's anyone uses a…

I was the creator of Twidroyd (First and biggest Android Twitter app w/ ~70% marketshare) and there was a larger story behind the first big anti-3rd party move. Basically we had some plans to bring users over to a new network after we got acquired by Idealab — and Twitter got wind of it. Think Mastodon 2010 style.

Uhh, need more details! What happened?

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Post by cojoke »

Whew I hope this isn’t permanent. I was just starting really like using Echofon to digest my twitter feed. Somehow I have a much more positive experience when I’m not being constantly suggested inflammatory tweets by people I don’t follow and third party apps allowed me what felt like more control there.

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Post by lawgimenez »

marban wrote: post #253
rsynnott wrote: post #240

It's worth noting that we've been here before; back in 2012 Twitter attempted to curtail third party clients (albeit in a far more organised, less haphazard way): https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4 Eventually, they stepped back from the brink, presumably after realising that it was a phenomenally stupid idea (while the fraction of Twitter users using third party clients is likely small, anyone who's anyone uses a…

I was the creator of Twidroyd (First and biggest Android Twitter app w/ ~70% marketshare) and there was a larger story behind the first big anti-3rd party move. Basically we had some plans to bring users over to a new network after we got acquired by Idealab — and Twitter got wind of it. Think Mastodon 2010 style.

Twidroyd was one of my frequently used clients back when I had a Nexus phone, along with Seesmic client.

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Post by shapefrog »

andirk wrote: post #24
rvz wrote: post #15

I can only see Twitter beginning to monetize third-party API access with some subscription plan whilst keeping the Twitter app free of charge (and protected with captchas, anti-botting tools, etc) Either way, this demonstrates that it makes no sense to build an entire company soley on someone else's API.

Someone should have told Slide, "the creators of SuperPoke!" Besides that tagline about making a useless Facebook add-on feature that already existed, their recruiters never did explain what they did beyond like 3 Facebook API calls.

> 4 Aug 2010 — Google pays $182 million for SuperPoke Pets! creator Slide

Glad I didn't depended on someone else's API, made 3 calls and got paid $182 mil in 2010 $$'s

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Post by kalleboo »

onion2k wrote: post #241
jsjohnst wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can't announce anything if you've fired the comms team. Elon fired the Tesla PR team and yet announcements still are made, usually as Tweets from him. It sucks, but a comms team isn’t necessary assuming you are ok with substandard communication.

and yet announcements still are made Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter. He tweets as an individual. Twitter, the company , is a blackhole as far as comms goes. There is no news in any official capacity from the company any more.

The @TwitterSupport account occasionally posts news announcements

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by shapefrog »

mlindner wrote: post #193

Good lord people... Why is everyone jumping to "this is the end of the Twitter API" when in reality it's late at night in California and is much more likely a simple outage. Everyone needs to cool their jets. I don't understand the hyperbole. Every new thing that happens at Twitter is a new "this is the end of Twitter" even though it never is.

Elon isnt going to buy you a horse for defending his virtue online.
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