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Twitter is really concerned about monetizing the 10% that don't use the official Twitter clients? That seems very corporate. I was happy when Twitter broke into
by wallflower 16y ago
Twitter is really concerned about monetizing the 10% that don't use the official Twitter clients? That seems very corporate. I was happy when Twitter broke into the mainstream (Tweets from celebrities and/or Tweets quoted/shown on major news networks), and this latest development seems to show that they effectively want a scrolling CNN News type ticker (eventually) in their UI of promoted "trends" (how can it be a trend if it is promoted)?
Are they going to block anonymous API usage as well?
I would be really annoyed as I don't like morassing through OAuth to get a Tweet.
e.g.
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?user_id=428333&count=1 http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?user_id...
(428333=Cnn Breaking News)
- phwd 16y agoPromoted trends are popular trends already (may not be the top 10 but they are popular trends). Twitter just places a promoted tweet from the advertiser when you click on a trend. You cannot be a promoted trend without reaching some popularity first.
- Turing_Machine 16y agoI would speculate what they're really doing is making sure that 10% doesn't jump to, say, 90% after they start jamming their own client full of ads.
- jdminhbg 16y agoSorry, accidental downvote when copy/pasting the following: "Twitter is really concerned about monetizing the 10% that don't use the official Twitter clients?" No, I think Twitter is concerned that monetizing the 90% (via user-hostile moves like the dickbar) will grow that non-monetizable 10%. I.e., in order to do the things they want to do, they can't have pleasant, usable alternatives out there that people can switch to.