Sort of amused by the wording in this line:
> It does not appear that your service addresses an area that our current or future products do not already serve.
How can your future product already serve an area?
What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
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Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#82You know, back before APIs were all the rage, people wrote clients for web services by scraping. Twitter really wouldn't be able to do anything about a Twitter client that pretended to be IE9.
This would only work for the public timeline. Most people would want to view their own timeline and that would be hard to since you'll have to create a browser instance for every user you have.
But a client would just run on their machine. Save cookies, and you're fine.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
app.net is still laughable as a replacement for twitter. With the new apps it's now convenient to use a feed aggregation service that only accepts feeds from rich people, but it's still a feed aggregation service that only accepts feeds from rich people.
Not sure how $36/year is "rich". Cable TV costs more than that per month! Personally, I'm sick of being sold to. Ad-supported is not the only business model in town and I'm not sure when using an ad-supported service over a paid one became a virtue. If this makes me "rich", ok. App.net is just proof that at least a few people agree with me.
Cable TV has a much better value proposition than a Twitter alternative. There's no free alternative to cable TV with a comparable feature set.
I do think it's an exaggeration to say that app.net caters to the rich, but I can guarantee you that the demographics skew much more upper class, between being an app that is charged for and a service that mostly has interested hackers (who, nowadays, tend to be an affluent bunch, for better or worse).
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or out for a quick buck without any expectation to build a lasting business.
How does this hold up when you're talking about web development, especially javascript-heavy or -only applications? You live and die by the browser API don't you?
Don't develop for the quirks of any particular browser.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#85Twitter: Don't build core-feature Twitter clients, we probably won't approve them.
Atta: I built a core-feature Twitter client!
Twitter: Sorry, we're not approving your core-feature Twitter client.
Who is surprised? How is this news? Were you expecting them to not apply their own rules? It seems like a clear-cut case, and concluding "don't build anything for Twitter" is just throwing a temper tantrum.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#86When you have to find 1500 monthly pay checks, I suppose you have to get the money somehow.
http://bijansabet.com/post/35849228202/the-first-photo-the-t...
Found via
http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/november/howTechCompanies...
Seems a sensible position to me (old guy, non-coder and won't use twitter or fb).
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#87Wait, you mean you can't just wrap someone's service in a fancy UI and then sell it as your own? OH THE HUMANITY!
What happened to innovation? All I see these days is a derivative of a derivative of a derivative. Hell even the memes these days are derived from other memes.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
And native has features that web doesn't have. Growl on OS X, for example.
Ahem: http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/ (although support isn't great yet: http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications )
I have been using notifications in chrome since they were available, and they don't even come close to growl, AFAICT.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#89*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.” Exactly, that's precisely the message they wanted you to have. What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do. I don't get anyone is surprised, it's Twitter's ecosystem and if you're duplicating their functionality then it's pe…
> What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do. Emphasis on "supposed". It doesn't always do it, and definitely never to everyone's taste. Hence the custom clients. > I don't get anyone is surprised, it's Twitter's ecosystem and if you're duplicating their functionality then it's perfectly reasonable of them…
That's all well and good but what do you tell the investors that just gave you millions in order to get returns if you are twitter? That you can't monetize because you gotta be a nice guy and keep giving it all away for free? That will not go over well obviously.
Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
#90*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.” Exactly, that's precisely the message they wanted you to have. What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do. I don't get anyone is surprised, it's Twitter's ecosystem and if you're duplicating their functionality then it's pe…
> What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? Yes. Opening a web browser, typing twitter.com on a phone keyboard, waiting for it to load, logging in on a phone keyboard, then using a mobile site that is built to target as many users on mobile across different devices and versions is much less enjoyable than tapping the twitter icon on a phone and having…
Windows 8 does not run on phones.