Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
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Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
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#2Not surprised at all. One could argue it was the API that attracted so many people to Twitter in the first place. It seemed really smart to me at first to create such a great ecosystem, but maybe there's more behind that scenes that I don't know about?
Either way it's sad to see this service go. The guy seems nice and provided a good service, but clearly he's not going to spend a bunch of his own time and money if it's not rewarding anymore.
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#3Could this be rebuilt for, or ported to, app.net? Seems like a good place for the author to continue what is obviously a project he cares about.
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#4You don't have to make calls to get the rate limit left, it comes in the API response HTTP header.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting
Look for these headers:
X-FeatureRateLimit-Limit
X-FeatureRateLimit-Remaining
X-FeatureRateLimit-Reset
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#5I'm sad to see the Twitter ecosystem collapsing. There are a couple of projects that I'd like to do involving Twitter, but I've backburnered them because it doesn't seem like a safe place to play.
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#6Could this be rebuilt for, or ported to, app.net? Seems like a good place for the author to continue what is obviously a project he cares about.
Exactly what I was thinking, thumbs up
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#7Once again I'm just sad to see the continued erosion from the awesomeness that was Twitter. Twitter are killing off the good and magnifying the bad, all in the pursuit of goals that seem to be forcing a continuous decrease in the quality of end user experiences.
The dumbest thing about this is that monetizing Twitter is trivial, without changing anything else. Just put occassional and obvious ads in our streams, and charge us to upgrade to see an ad-free steam.
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#8It's a shame that Twitter themselves don't seem to be doing anything to clean up the spam. I use to enjoy following twitter during sporting events but these days every trending topic is immediately swamped by automated spammers.
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#9It's feeling more and more like the people at the top of Twitter have lost the thread.
At one point I thought there mission was to "Know what everyone in the world is thinking right now".
Obviously useful, obviously valuable.
Instead....well, I don't really know where they're going, and I don't think they do either.
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#10Once again I'm just sad to see the continued erosion from the awesomeness that was Twitter. Twitter are killing off the good and magnifying the bad, all in the pursuit of goals that seem to be forcing a continuous decrease in the quality of end user experiences. The dumbest thing about this is that monetizing Twitter is trivial, without changing anything else. Just put occassional and obvious ads in our streams, and…
That doesn't sound trivial to me. Many would just use a client/extension that doesn't render said obvious ads.
On the other hand, that is the status quo of the web (cf. AdBlock) and it mostly works.