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The network effect is Twitter's barrier to entry. Everyone goes where everyone else is. If you can easily move the network elsewhere via the api, the barrier is
by ericb 19y ago
The network effect is Twitter's barrier to entry. Everyone goes where everyone else is. If you can easily move the network elsewhere via the api, the barrier is gone.
- tptacek 19y agoI'm not sure what this has to do with the API. People are "going to" Twitter, not the Twitter API.
- ivankirigin 19y agoThe point is that you can add an opensource and distributed intermediary because of the API.
- tptacek 19y agoYes, if you manage to convert a critical mass of Twitter API users into Twitter-shadow API users. A similar "technique" converts all AIM users into AIM-shadow users.