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Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes.

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Re: Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes.

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It amusingly says "We ask for a Twitter or Facebook account to help find your friends on Subjot. We'll never post to Twitter without your permission". So it will post to Facebook without your permission?

oh good catch... we'll fix that because no we will not post to FB without your permission.

Re: Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes.

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post #5

I don't understand why apps make twitter and facebook as the only gatekeepers. Why not have an independent signup?

We initially had independent sign up as an option and probably will do that again in the future.

The reason we ditched it, is because Subjot is a network effect product. It's WAY better if you can find some friends already using it, which was far more likely for a user if they signed in with Twitter/FB rather than had the option to do that later in the process.

Subjot is still small and in "private beta" in the true sense of the word (we didn't expect the internet to find us yet) so you may still not have any friends using it but some people do!

Re: Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes.

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post #6

It amusingly says "We ask for a Twitter or Facebook account to help find your friends on Subjot. We'll never post to Twitter without your permission". So it will post to Facebook without your permission?

oh good catch... we'll fix that because no we will not post to FB without your permission.

and we now fixed this on staging and it will go out with our next code push.

Re: Subjot: Reverse Google+? Twitter meets Quora? Let's see where this goes.

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post #9
post #2

I love Subjot. Much better than Twitter because there is less 'noise'

There's only so much noise on Twitter as you opt-in to. You don't have to follow a bunch of people on either service.

One of the reasons I created Subjot was because I wanted to share even more. On Twitter if I don't post about tech or nyc tech I lose followers but I have so many more interests than tech. I wanted to post about music, football, street art etc, without spamming people who only care about my posts in tech.
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