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How can you reconcile: "...when we dug in a little bit we realized that it was causing massive confusion among user's who had an iPhone and were looking to use
by dschobel 17y ago
How can you reconcile:
"...when we dug in a little bit we realized that it was causing massive confusion among user's who had an iPhone and were looking to use Twitter for the first time. They would head to the App Store, search for Twitter and would see results that included a lot of apps that had nothing to do with Twitter and a few that did, but a new user wouldn't find what they were looking for and give up. That is a lost user for all of us."
with:
"We will also admit our mistakes when they are made and
the Blackberry client should never have been labeled "official". It has since been changed and you won't see that language used with Twitter clients in the future."
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In the one case the lack of an official client was hurting new user acquisition and in the other (Blackberry) case it was stepping on developer toes?
- rendezvouscp 17y agoI have a feeling that the word “official” connotes “authentic.” E.g., I would trust the “official” version of a music video to not having any surprises, while the unofficial versions are less trustworthy. I think Twitter realizes that using the word “official” to describe their apps makes it seem like other developers create unofficial apps, when in fact the developers are using the same officially-sanctioned APIs.