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There are two tiers of Twitter: the early-adopter tech users, who use third-party API clients like Twitterific and Tweetbot, and everyone else. The first bucke
by crb 7y ago
There are two tiers of Twitter: the early-adopter tech users, who use third-party API clients like Twitterific and Tweetbot, and everyone else.
The first bucket has a vastly different Twitter experience. As an API client user I have no ads, no polls, no recommendations or friends likes, no "someone you follow replied" experience. Just a timeline of who I choose to follow, the blissful way it always was. No wonder they wanted to shut the API down.
(Apropos of nothing, the first bucket contains all the tech journalists.)
- zippergz 7y agoI don't know if this is such a clean distinction. I have been on twitter since the first 3-6 months that it existed as twitter, and I use the website and first-party mobile apps. Are the ads and recommendations annoying? Yes. But back when I used third-party apps (tons of them over the years, I think starting with Twinkle, and then in some order Tweetie [which became the official app], Tweetbot, Twitteriffic, and probably some I'm forgetting), the experience was bad in lots of other ways. As native photos were added, they didn't display right. As native retweets and quote tweets became a thing, they didn't work. I imagine now with tweet threading, there was at least some gap between the feature existing and the third-party apps supporting it. Obviously it's a tradeoff, but I found the downsides of the official experience to be less frustrating than the downsides of the third-party experience.