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Can anyone explain why Twitter even matters beyond app discovery? If I create an app that posts to Twitter so that someone else can consume that data, why not
by drivingmenuts 16y ago
Can anyone explain why Twitter even matters beyond app discovery?
If I create an app that posts to Twitter so that someone else can consume that data, why not just cut out the middleman after the initial announcement?
- dasil003 16y agoAre you suggesting that the important tweets are the automated tweets by non-twitter-specific applications? This is bizarre to me, because I typically only follow people that are tweeting interesting things per se. Discovering apps almost never happens; to the contrary, people sending a lot of automated tweets get unfollowed by me rather quickly.
- drivingmenuts 16y agoI dunno. It may be that I can derive more from a longer blog post, with more information, than an SMS that imparts nothing useful to me. For in-depth information, it's nearly useless and I, for one, don't need/am not interested in a running train of thought. I do think it would make a great discovery aggregator, now that it's up and running.