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Yes - Twitter exists to make money. But they need to decide how they want to make their money and grow in parallel. Is it ads? Celebrities accounts? Is it sel
by tlogan 11y ago
Yes - Twitter exists to make money.
But they need to decide how they want to make their money and grow in parallel. Is it ads? Celebrities accounts? Is it selling API access?
If I'm Twitter CEO I would stick with "developer friendly" approach in order to re-start Twitter growth.
In short, my opinion is that companies needs to be nice with developers and cherish them all the way until the company is very very successful. I guess Twitter executives think that they made it and "developer friendly" stage is behind them.
- tangled_zans 11y agoI would say that even if the developer-friendly stage was behind them (and given how rapidly the web evolves, I don't think that any social-media company should ever consider itself past that stage), the fair thing to do - in my eyes - is to at the very least show some gratitude for the people who helped you get where you are today. Twitter and Facebook may be Big Corp today, but that wasn't always the case, and a lot of the initial growth that helped them get into the mainstream was due to hobbyists and independent devs that made cool little apps like EmojiTracker that would catch the attention of early adopters that then became the initial users of the platform. The sad thing is that while Facebook became the generic one-size-fits-all "mom and dad" network (I can't even remember the last time I even used one of their 'apps' or whatever), Twitter really had the potential to evolve into something beyond that, if only it cultivated better relationships with their devs and encouraged people to build on and experiment with the platform. Oh well. Lets keep an eye out for the next thing, I suppose!