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I developed a product that connects Twitter and Facebook. I always thought that Twitter would be the enabler because of it's open street like atmosphere and Fac
by egfx 11y ago
I developed a product that connects Twitter and Facebook. I always thought that Twitter would be the enabler because of it's open street like atmosphere and Facebook would be difficult to work with because it was a walled garden. The exact opposite was true. Over time, Twitter would get more restrictive and difficult to work with while Facebook enhanced the look and feel of the stream and how the tweets appeared, emphasizing and highlighting them.
In essence I think the product spoke to the nature of the whole issue. The tweets left Twitter to seed Facebook with good interesting, connected data. Twitter would know little about the context while Facebook would get enriched context from the tweets.
Twitter doesn't want to be a dumb pipe to make apps smarter and better. They want to be the bucket like Facebook.