Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
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Re: Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
#2In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking”
Would he rather they put one-paragraph labels on each quadrant? Sometimes phrases that sound like MBA buzzwords (and might be MBA buzzwords) are actually useful too.
Re: Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
#3In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking” Would he rather they put one-paragraph labels on each quadrant? Sometimes phrases that sound like MBA buzzwords (and might be MBA buzzwords) are actually useful too.
I think he'd rather Twitter take a firm, unchanging stance as to their policy toward third-party applications built on the Twitter-as-a-platform concept. The buzzword-filled doublespeak in their blog post serves only one purpose: to intimate change while keeping their future options open. Unfortunately, that makes their policies (current or otherwise) about as firm as a loaf of bread.
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#4"In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking”."
Not bullshit, these are demonstrably useful products for people who want to utilize new traffic sources in the interest of making money or growing their business.
"But services like Storify and Favstar, which are actually useful and/or fun, those are no good."
ummm...ok? Utility is in the eye of the beholder...Twitter is a B2C product, so they're going to try and limit the number of competing services that are stealing B2C market share from them (why would you expect them to be ok with people using alternative Twitter apps instead of the official one?)
Now, Twitter is not a B2B company, so it makes sense that they would allow those types of services to continue. It's quite possible they're allowing B2B services that are utilizing the twitter platform to continue operating because they plan to acquire a few of them in the future to try and actually make a profit one day.
Re: Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
#5In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking” Would he rather they put one-paragraph labels on each quadrant? Sometimes phrases that sound like MBA buzzwords (and might be MBA buzzwords) are actually useful too.
The overall issue with the diagram is, not only are they MBA buzzwords, but it's a silly diagram that has no meaning – they're dressing up 'things we don't want you to do anymore' as a technical diagram in a two-dimensional space that makes little to no sense.
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#6Twitter wants to give you access to the data. Their client is their main product. Thus, every 3rd party client is competing with their main product, that seems to be a fact.
Theres no way to stop you from building one anyway, twitter knows that. If you go against their rules, you're a revolutionary, and if you win that revolution, they'll have to deal with you.
You can't expect however, that the incumbent is going to go around encouraging revolutions against themselves.
The only alternative is to encourage everyone to make clients, at which point, they're just a big cloud xmpp server to the world.
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#7Utter hypocrisy that they're discouraging third party clients, after having acquired one.
app.net suddenly looks more attractive.
Re: Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
#8"In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking”." Not bullshit, these are demonstrably useful products for people who want to utilize new traffic sources in the interest of making money or growing their business. "But services like Storify and Favstar, which are actually useful and/or fun, those are no good." ummm...ok? Utility is in the eye of the beh…
Let's get one thing straight: these are not products, they're services. Nobody is producing anything here.
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#9"Matrix: An artificial reality construct created by MBAs to imprison the minds of those upon whom they feed."
From the source Gruber linked.
Yawn. MBA bashing is a lazy circlejerk and adds nothing constructive to an otherwise valid argument against Twitter's self-effacing API policies.
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#10"In the “good” quadrants are bullshit terms like “Social CRM”, “Social analytics”, and “Social influence ranking”." Not bullshit, these are demonstrably useful products for people who want to utilize new traffic sources in the interest of making money or growing their business. "But services like Storify and Favstar, which are actually useful and/or fun, those are no good." ummm...ok? Utility is in the eye of the beh…
This must be the Twitter analog to a Voight-Kampff test, because "social CRM" and "social influence ranking" seem to me to be the fuel for spambots, mindless marketing accounts, and other general filth. The MBA behind this plan would probably stand outside his bakery demanding payment for people stealing smells.