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Twitter listened.
How could Twitter shut down his blog?
Karma police.
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
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#22It's amazing how much devs want to build on top of Twitter. There's got to be an opportunity for Twitter to monetize that instead of fighting it and pissing everyone off. Why can't they just have some reasonable fees for API access?
Or just a share on ads like adsense does...
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#23"My data showed the cost of a real, targeted follower on my platform was about 12 cents, versus $2.50 on Twitter Ads"
The cost is lower, but can someone do studies on the lifetime REVENUE of a real, targeted follower? It might all be meaningless if that number is 0.01 cents.
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#25Even before Twitter's recent aggressive behavior towards developers I would have expected this to get shut down. If this became something widely used Twitter value to me would decline. The entire favorite feature would just start to be ignored by a majority of users.
I don't think the feature itself would be ignored. His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself.
It would however cause users to start ignoring Twitter messages/notifications. People are already ignoring responses from people they don't know, and it can get even worse if we think most people interacting with us are just bots.
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#26This is an incredible idea, and it looks like you executed your design well, and even had the gusto to put school aside to go 100%.
If anyone deserves to succeed, it's you man. I hope twitter comes around for you.
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#27Yeah, it's really hard to get in touch with anybody at Twitter. My account has been hosed for two weeks, I log in and just get an error message -- once I log in I can't even view the help page. And of course, there's no option on their forms for the problem I'm actually having. I've been thinking about sending a fax to their number for law enforcement queries since somebody might at least see it before they throw it…
Even the AP Twitter accounts are taking eons to bring back from suspension. Twitter haven't exactly streamlined that process, to say the least.