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Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore

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Re: Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore

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Post by sidawson »

GhotiFish wrote: post #29
sidawson wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[author here] The post was intended to be stand alone commentary Not a bulletproof thesis. All I'm saying is my opinions etc after a long stressful week. Ignore the links, they're just there to lighten the story.

Ok, that's fine. You want to lighten the mood. but personally, I recommend against fart jokes during a eulogy.

The images are gone now. As per recommendations by other hn users above. The only links remaining are to directly pertinent or explanatory information.

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Post by itafroma »

sidawson wrote: post #21
itafroma wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What gets me is that they aren't even re-hosted: they're hotlinks to other websites' imagery. Besides being incredibly lazy , leaching off of other people's bandwidth without giving them credit or placing the imagery in their original context by linking to the pages they appear on is just a low move.

[author here] sigh Yeah, you're both right. I'll move the images local. Not intending to leach. Just trying to lighten up an otherwise kinda depressing post. Seeing four years of work come crashing down. As pg says, running a startup is like being repeatedly hit in the face.

Thanks, I appreciate it: I'm just not a fan of people not getting the credit for or benefits of their creative works. While I don't have an opinion on the use of the images, I can definitely understand where you're coming from and what you were trying to do.

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Post by jarcoal »

lancewiggs wrote: post #7

Once again I'm just sad to see the continued erosion from the awesomeness that was Twitter. Twitter are killing off the good and magnifying the bad, all in the pursuit of goals that seem to be forcing a continuous decrease in the quality of end user experiences. The dumbest thing about this is that monetizing Twitter is trivial, without changing anything else. Just put occassional and obvious ads in our streams, and…

Saying it's trivial is kind of ridiculous; it's not. It's worth considering that rolling back the API like this will bring a lot of users back to the site to actually see those ads.

Regardless, as a developer it sucks to see companies take away fun tools, but as an entrepreneur I like seeing them at least try and execute an actual business plan.

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Post by protomyth »

stuartmemo wrote: post #28

It's not fun anymore for developers . Of course it isn't, but do normal users care? I can't say I've enjoyed using twitter any less since they introduced the API limit.

I cannot as a user say that I've seen anything cool added, plus I've watched tweetdeck have things removed with no other company able to replace it.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

hcho wrote: post #23
itafroma wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What gets me is that they aren't even re-hosted: they're hotlinks to other websites' imagery. Besides being incredibly lazy , leaching off of other people's bandwidth without giving them credit or placing the imagery in their original context by linking to the pages they appear on is just a low move.

Leeching bandwidth? Really? This is not 1999 anymore, no one cares if their images are hot linked anymore. Be ready to be surprised, people found ways of making money from hot linked images.

In 2012, I replaced an often-hotlinked image with a picture of something gross, just on principle.

Be ready to be surprised, the next link to a meme you click could be a gore-fest.

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Post by hkmurakami »

stuartmemo wrote: post #28

It's not fun anymore for developers . Of course it isn't, but do normal users care? I can't say I've enjoyed using twitter any less since they introduced the API limit.

Echofon for OSX is no longer functional since API 1.0 was deprecated.

I've moved to another native client, but as a user who likes to see multiple avenues for engineers to subsist (i.e. not just working for bigco), it's saddening to see.

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Post by celticbadboy »

shocks wrote: post #11

I dislike this new trend of linking to 'meme' like images within a blog post. It really detracts from the post and gives it a childish feel. I clicked those links expecting hard evidence about Twitter's bad API, instead I get irritating comics and stop signs. No thanks.

I would rather see that from a blog post than someone trying to look like a fortune 500 when it's just a guy and a site.

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Post by glesica »

njl wrote: post #25
lancewiggs wrote: post #7

Once again I'm just sad to see the continued erosion from the awesomeness that was Twitter. Twitter are killing off the good and magnifying the bad, all in the pursuit of goals that seem to be forcing a continuous decrease in the quality of end user experiences. The dumbest thing about this is that monetizing Twitter is trivial, without changing anything else. Just put occassional and obvious ads in our streams, and…

I've never heard it stated quite so plainly, but that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if the billion dollars in funding demands more.

This seems to me to be the problem. They took too much money to monetize in this way. A few bucks a month from a few million users, plus whatever they can make by occasionally inserting ads into the stream (which can't be that much considering how many people would never even see an ad because their streams are too noisy) just doesn't seem like enough to justify all the VC money...

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Post by OGinparadise »

Twitter is trying to go public and everyone holding shares is thinking of the possible riches. After that, they can leave to start their own thing, stay or possibly retire.

What we/others say is a distant second. Right now they need to show growing revenues and that's it.

Re: Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore

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Post by pfraze »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #35
hcho wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leeching bandwidth? Really? This is not 1999 anymore, no one cares if their images are hot linked anymore. Be ready to be surprised, people found ways of making money from hot linked images.

In 2012, I replaced an often-hotlinked image with a picture of something gross, just on principle. Be ready to be surprised, the next link to a meme you click could be a gore-fest.

sheez man
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