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Re: What Twitter Can Be

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Post by learnstats2 »

gre wrote: post #69
learnstats2 wrote: post #51

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I am a Twitter user but only because of social network inertia. If they charged me $0.01 once, I'd happily take the opportunity to leave. On the other hand, I would happily pay ( today ) for something that gave me full control over my content.

I'm not a twitter power user, so what exactly do you want to control about your twitter content? More than just deleting tweets/pictures? Serious question.

The complaints about Twitter on this forum all basically follow the same theme: Twitter won't let me do such-and-such when I try to read/write the content, or Twitter forces me to read/write in such a way. You can read each of those at your own leisure.

The major shareholder of the article wants Twitter to provide a more Facebook-style algorithm-decides-what-you-read, which Twitter indeed seem to be insistently experimenting with. That's a major turn-off for me and I think a misjudgement. People currently move from Facebook to Twitter as their primary social network because of exactly that problem. Personally, I want to decide for myself.

I like to see my network content, the content that I have already curated for myself, in chronological order. For whatever reason, social networks would prefer me not to have easy access to that any more.

Ideally, I would like to have the ability to take everything I have written on Twitter (content that I have provided) and easily transfer it to an alternative host.

I would like Twitter to give me the freedom to do that - so that I don't feel that I have to do it.

Re: What Twitter Can Be

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Post by darklajid »

soylentcola wrote: post #156
darklajid wrote: post #129

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G+ is what you have to use for YouTube insults and to rate the applications on your Android phone, ignoring that they might be free, cost a couple bucks or be > 10 $currency. If you want to give feedback, join the 'social network'. (That's especially fun if applications, even 'paid' applications, try to 'encourage' you to rate in the Play Store. "Look, Yatse. I love what you are doing. But I CANNOT rate you. Firefox?…

So...it's your Google profile that they use across their services. That's like saying you can't rate an iOS app because it requires an iTunes account. The social stuff can be used or ignored as you see fit.

I cannot talk about anything iOS, I wouldn't know how that works and don't know what an iTunes account is.

But here's the thing: I have a Google account. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to put down cash in the damn Play Store¹. Just recently I bought a couple of $10 apps. They take my money. They know who I am. I cannot rate any application.

Because my 'Google Account' isn't good enough for that, I need that 'social stuff'. Which I cannot, because my G+ account (I gave it a try, didn't like it all that much and got nymbanned²) is ~dead~.

That's actually like Amazon requiring an account to order things (fine, 'normal'), but you have to connect Facebook to post a review. In one word: Insane. Or broken.

①: Now that is a moronic name and never gets better.

②: I used to change my name from my ~real name~ to 'Ben .'. Account locked out and lots of things are broken. Of course, a while later they changed their minds and now ~real names~ are optional and if you don't want to give a last name they suggest that you use .. '.'. I wish I was making this up.

Re: What Twitter Can Be

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Post by darklajid »

lmm wrote: post #145
darklajid wrote: post #128

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There's a single thing G+ can offer that Twitter doesn't: Long posts. The rest? Bullshit. G+ is a closed and broken platform, built by an advertisement company. It made lots of questionable decisions in the past (this very same person has a blocked G+ account - for real name policy violations - that, combined with the amazing Google customer support means that I will never ever be able to rate an app for my Android p…

> G+ is a closed and broken platform, built by an advertisement company. So just like Twitter then?

That's a good point. I admit defeat.

The single retort I can come up with is that I'd still prefer to feed anything _but_ Google with data, but really.. You're right. No difference.

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