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I read it this way: There's now 75k registered Twitter apps. You're not going to be successful making a generic client. Think bigger: there's plenty of room fo
by radley 16y ago
I read it this way:
There's now 75k registered Twitter apps. You're not going to be successful making a generic client. Think bigger: there's plenty of room for success in other Twitter verticals.
(and boooo for the fake FUD headline)
- bradly 16y agoNot all twitter apps are clients. I would guess that most are not clients.
- mkramlich 16y agoAgreed. I've got a few little Python and shell scripts laying around that have talked to their API at one point. By a loose standard, each is a client. Perhaps there are 74,800 little shell scripts or integration adapters out there, but not what an ordinary person would call a client app. That I'd believe.
- barrkel 16y agoAnd yet Twitter interaction needs to be the "same way everywhere", "consistent", "same experience", rigorous adherence, etc. Seems anti-innovation to me. I think it's rather that they want to own the client space, and are setting a "high bar" - i.e. a way of removing the competition by fiat. But if you supply content that they can make money off of, by all means, continue to sharecrop.