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Basically the value proposition is providing more granular privacy controls for Twitter; you can decide who can see a piece of content or not. I think it's a g
by jayliew 17y ago
Basically the value proposition is providing more granular privacy controls for Twitter; you can decide who can see a piece of content or not.
I think it's a good idea, although I probably won't use it since I don't have enough followers on Twitter in each group that I can nicely classify as: "family", "co-workers", "hockey club", but that may change over time as more people adopt Twitter and I am able to label all these people.
Right now, when I want to share something, Facebook is still my primary since most of the people I know and keep in touch with is on Facebook. For me, Twitter is for some people I know, but mostly a discovery tool to find new people I previously did not know. That said, if I have private content, I am unlikely to post it on Twitter. Because if I did want to share it to people I know, they're all on Facebook and there's privacy controls there.
(Just sharing my use case)
Entrepreneur to entrepreneur, I am just concerned that Twitter will decide after you have gained traction that "hey, people _do_ want more privacy controls, and they build in privacy controls and give it away free for everybody" aka what Amazon Web Services did; knee-capping startups that innovated around the edges and giving away their value proposition for free.
Any sane founder will keep such a threat in mind, however much of a stretch it may seem.
It'd be nice if you have a way to hedge against this risk, imho.
- or -
you could be lucky and get acquired, like how Twitter bought the Mixer Labs for the value their created for Twitter users.
- fabiandesimone 17y agoI hear you. I guess that is a risk we all take when we build on top of platforms such as Twitter or Facebook. Of course getting acquired is a remote posibility but we are in it for the long run. Is about creating value for the users. Twitalbums is a bet in the sense that we are going against the nature of Twitter were everything tends to be public. Someone asked us the other day: can Twitter and privacy mix together? I believe so.