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> As a very early adopter of Twitter, I have to say I thought this platform had a lot of promise at one time. Given that is was a centralized, proprietary serv
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago
> As a very early adopter of Twitter, I have to say I thought this platform had a lot of promise at one time.
Given that is was a centralized, proprietary service from day one, so it necessarily would follow the interests of the owners, and that also has a strong network effect that locks people in ... how did you come to that wild conclusion?
- shawnee_ 9y agoThere was a (brief) period of time many years ago when Twitter was more friendly to developers; that is what I was referring to. What followed was a series of terribly bad decisions to turn it into a marketing platform, rather than what it what it was organically becoming, which was a real-time market research tool + analytics API. As a result of bad direction and big ego, today it is just an extremely noisy, mostly irrelevant, echo chamber.