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fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice, shame on me. By now we should realize the pattern with twitter is that any company that adds real value to twitter,
by minalecs 16y ago
fool me once, shame on you.. fool me twice, shame on me. By now we should realize the pattern with twitter is that any company that adds real value to twitter, they are more than willing to take the idea, and build a competing service. Search, trends, ads, alt. clients, and url shorteners. They fooled us all when they said they just wanted to be the pipe.
- patio11 16y agoThey fooled us all This is at variance with my recollection of events.
- sandipc 16y agosearch was purchased (summize)
- ejwcom 16y agoTwitter development is transitioning into a hobby. As a business opportunity, it sucks. Anything of real business value you create will get sucked into the platform, so, really, there is not much point to it.
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoHow does 3rd-party ads add value to twitter?
- Qz 16y agoIf they do a better job ad showing ads you want to see than the official Twitter ads, then it adds value. But now there's no chance for competition -- you eat your twitter ads because you don't have a choice (aside from the obvious one of not using twitter, which I find wholesome and life-enriching so far).
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoI don't really feel more ads are valuable, no matter the quality.
- robryan 16y agoWell they just have to be better than promoted Tweets I guess, then they would add value over the advertising your going to see anyway.
- tansey 16y agoWhy don't people patent their Twitter apps then? It may take three years before you get it approved, but once it's in you can sue Twitter into oblivion for stealing your idea, right?
- nl 16y agoYou can't just "patent an app" If you have a patentable concept, perhaps - but even then, patents need to be surprisingly specific. For a platform vendor like Twitter that makes it pretty easy to work around their claims. For example, if you managed to patent the idea of broadcasting advertisements on twitter, the patent claim would probably have to say the method is something like "insert advertisement using Twitter API". Twitter can work around that by inserting the advertisement by other means. In other words - don't waste you time with this strategy.