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Because when I'm browsing Twitter my first thought is usually "Gee I wish I could buy some random thing."
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sed9ewxz25turey/Screenshot%202014-...
If you don't like the direction twitter is heading, try quitter.se, ello.co, app.net
you hire all these product people, have all these investors, but any direction you can take the product actually makes it worse against its initial, great core use.
twitter as a protocol is on a level with smtp - a lucky strike, hitting a need, something for the ages. journalists, media, etc. love it. RSS on a whole new level.
but twitter as a product company? smtp is a not a profit model, you need to have real, closed products - hence the API limits, hence all this other bull. they have a narrow scope hit product and will kill it by making it broad. a little bit like google and search, put ads on it, done, the rest is noise driven by boredom and/or panic (we need to justify our existence!).
twitters design team is bigger than most startups - and for what? the whole slack team fits into the twitter reception area and covers how many platforms, apps, use cases by now?
you threw a lucky punch with a communication channel/protocol, but now you're stuck. aren't we happy that the smtp or unix guys as a whole didn't try the same. "monetize".
If you don't like the direction twitter is heading, try quitter.se, ello.co, app.net
app.net wanted more than I could afford to follow more than a few people, but the others look interesting. I'll give them a look.
edit: ello won't accept my email for the invitation request. Quitter looks like a clone of Twitter, and barely anyone in the public timeline speaks English. Not sure what to do with this.
edit 2: It looks like it took the request and sent me ten different confirmation emails while showing an error on the form. This doesn't make me feel good about the service.
Because buying a product based on a 140 character description is a thing that should be encouraged.
By the looks of it, clicking on the link brings you to a page with a lengthier description.
The Buy button in the feed might confuse some users though, since it will likely open the information panel.
If you don't like the direction twitter is heading, try quitter.se, ello.co, app.net
