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Some good points made here, but I think the gloom and doom is a little overstated. Facebook went through the same thing for awhile and then created facebook li
by ziadbc 16y ago
Some good points made here, but I think the gloom and doom is a little overstated.
Facebook went through the same thing for awhile and then created facebook lite, then rolled more simplicity back into their main app.
A company like twitter is going to have a hard time pleasing everybody, and has to figure out the boundaries with its APIs as time goes on. In UI rate limits? They are probably battling spammers gaming the regular frontend like crazy, and are still hammering out the kinks for the real users.
As far as Dick Costollo goes, if there is anyone who I think would be pretty adept about balancing core ideals, while actually making money, he seems like the guy.
- russ 16y ago#newtwitter is now an API client. Like any other client, we are subject to rate-limits. The fact that the JavaScript API upon which #newtwitter is built can make authenticated, fully client-side API calls, rate limits are necessary.
- marclove 16y agoYea, but users could give a crap about that. It's their official product and the default way for people to use the service. It shouldn't have rate limits on how much you can use their website. They need to fix it.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoThere is no problem with it being rate limited. Provided that rate is above the rate which a user could reasonably be using twitter at.
- russ 16y agoThis is the intention, but there are probably some limits that we could afford to refine. As people switch over, we're starting to get some good data around usage patterns and will certainly tweak if necessary.
- marclove 16y agolol...had no idea anyone would find that comment so offensive.