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From what perspective? From 99% of users' perspective: blocking rackspace has no effect on them unless they try to switch to posterous. You are one of a handf
by mrtron 16y ago
From what perspective?
From 99% of users' perspective: blocking rackspace has no effect on them unless they try to switch to posterous.
You are one of a handful of users running something else on rackspace for personal use. Sure for 5 users this was a bad approach.
From twitpic's persepective: it stopped them from losing users to posterous. Win.
- Terretta 16y agoWhat makes anyone think this stopped TwitPic from losing users to Posterous? I would imagine any user sophisticated enough to think of moving, would have some opinions about data liberation and services that try to lock them in. On the contrary, I would imagine this puts more users on notice that TwitPic is locking users' own data in. Such users will begin looking for other places to post pics to.
- shantanubala 16y agoNot to mention, people may already have local copies of stuff they post of TwitPic. Blocking Posterous just means re-uploading stuff, which is a nuisance. The only person who loses here is TwitPic. Unless you're as big as Facebook, you can't really monopolize user data.