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Your extension looks fantastic. Is it cool if i sent you some questions?
Why you don’t post your questions directly, rather than asking if you can ask?
Why are they having the funeral less than 2 weeks after a "suspension" of the API, after 10+ years of work? Twitter under the new management is making rash decisions but also has been reversing many. I still have Tweetbot app on my phone in hopes that it's temporary. Has there been anything definitive to say that won't be the case?
Twitter changed their Developer Agreement yesterday, the main change is that it now includes this: > You will not or attempt to (and will not allow others to) ...c) use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34448524
Won't this hurt Elon in the long run? I was never able to stand the official Twitter app it's filled with ads and irrelevant clutter. I think since moving to Android Tweetbot is one of the few apps I miss from having on my phone. I was still enjoying the Mac version. I guess I will stick to Nitter [0] from now on. [0] - https://nitter.net/
By "app" do you mean the twitter website (because that's all i ve used). Why would one need an App to read a list that s basically full of browser links?
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I don't know what it even means for this to "scale". I think people right now are hung up on Mastodon-the-social-network, the way it's been principally used until fairly recently, where people share servers and servers have a discernible culture, moderation, rules, community, that kind of thing. I don't think that's going to last long at all. The Mastodon that stands a very good chance of killing Twitter is Mastodon-…
Everyone is approaching the social media issue as if it was a technical problem - it's not. No amount of decentralisation or protocols address (or even attempt) the root cause. The closest would be the crypto-based social networks, which while they have their own problems at least attempt to address the issue of funding the platform. You know it's bad when the closest thing to a solution comes from crypto grifters. S…
That's how it works now, but I don't think it's going to stay that way for long. I don't think large shared Mastodon instances, at least larger than you'd see for a group blog, make much sense. It doesn't make sense for all the reasons you're spelling out: the amount of effort to keep those big instances going is expensive, and there's no real funding model for it, and beyond that there's not enough win to justify the work.
But a "network" of hundreds of thousands or millions of tiny instances, maybe paradoxically, doesn't have this same spam/trolling problem, any more than RSS did when we were all using Google Reader. You see posts from people you follow. Because most people aren't on big shared instances, you're not pulling lots of random traffic in to begin with.
Again: think of this like Blogger and Google Reader mashed together, with Twitter's surface-level user experience. I think it'll work fine, and I think it does most of what Twitter did (and some additional things). People forget that the "blogosphere" worked pretty great before Twitter and Facebook wrecked it. I think there's a good chance we're heading back towards something that works like blogs did.
I've been on twitter since 2009 and have 100k+ tweet. Since they've killed all third-party clients I've basically stopped using twitter, and have no intention of using the (bad) official client. Good job Elon!
to all the people who claim this, i wish there was a RemindMe! feature to check back in a few months People who have invested years of their lives writing thousands of tweets aren't giving up investments so easily. This is like real life investments or relationships, it takes a lot to break them
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No, they really did learn things. For example, consider the racist mobbing of Leslie Jones in 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/18/leslie-jones... Twitter learned that they really had to take harm reduction more seriously if they didn't want to be known for things like that. I believe that their improvements there were part of what set them on the path to their later profits: https://www.netcials.com…
Ad revenue can be down 40% if your overall paid workforce was reduced by ~85%. It wasn't working out for Twitter either way, if they wanted to be profitable then something had to change. As an impartial non-Twitter user, I think it's safe to say that neither version of Twitter was healthy for it's platform or users.
I have an old friend who is blind. The official Twitter client is a LOT less accessible than the one she was using. This change impacts her ability to use Twitter considerably. And before you start with the "well, she's probably better off" -- she lives in a small rural town. Twitter and Facebook and the like are one of her few connections to a larger world.
> This makes me so sad. Your iPhone app allowed me as a blind person to use Twitter so much better than the app that they themselves produce. Sorry for the hostility you are receiving from them, but know that you are appreciated for the hard work you’ve done.
> Maybe the best thing anyone's ever told us. Thank you for this, truly. It is everything. Please take care.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RustyHilliard77/status/1616174474...
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I think that is right. A public API radically slows down product iteration since each feature needs to be considered in terms of its blast radius to third party clients. It probably burned the bridge for good this time, but killing the API to speed up product velocity isn’t an insane move if you value that more than the existing 3rd party ecosystem.
That's not really true. Many websites version their API and/or release new features without providing support (at least initially) via the API. That's the route Reddit has taken. There are several features that only work through the official app or website. It can be frustrating as a user of a third party client but it's a much better alternative to cutting everybody off.