Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
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Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
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#2I suppose I understand what all the angst about Twitter relates, but personally I don't really care. I have always used Twitter as a way to get updates from people and places that I am interested in and as long as they continue to provide that function I will keep using their service. Make that hard to do however and all bets are off.
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#3Only problem.
Twitter was originally thought of as a small family/close friends network.
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#4is it? or maybe, unlike other startups, Twitter is willing to make the changes necessary to adjust course and reinvent itself? Google cut Buzz and Wave. They were both great initiatives that never took off. You can't throw good money after bad money. I think developers are important but the users experience is paramount and if to maintain that they need to adjust their service, so be it.
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#5I wonder what impact all this Twitter-hate is having on Twitter's HR department. I say this because I don't think shutting off third-party clients will hurt the company that much. If it makes it difficult to attract the best talent, that's a different story. Look at what happened to Y! over the last decade.
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#6Interesting observation. It seems that Twitter might shrink into nothing eventually, and possibly then be infinitely valuable (assuming all this shrinkage makes it more valuable).
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#7Do the top-level people at Twitter not realize this? Why would they continue down this path?
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#8Do the top-level people at Twitter not realize this? Why would they continue down this path?
The money wont last forever.
Re: Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
#9Do the top-level people at Twitter not realize this? Why would they continue down this path?
The money wont last forever.
Seems like the only logical reason they are doing this is because they are in the start of an acquisition. They have to prove some type of revenue stream (ads) and restricting users to the twitter site/app will help them guarantee the made up numbers.
Re: Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
#10I wonder what impact all this Twitter-hate is having on Twitter's HR department. I say this because I don't think shutting off third-party clients will hurt the company that much. If it makes it difficult to attract the best talent, that's a different story. Look at what happened to Y! over the last decade.
They still have huge engineering challenges and as long as that's true they're going to be able to find people willing and interested.