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Twitter has made their nut as the collective tissue of the social web. Sure the tweets are actual content, but they're always about something external -- twitte
by ja2ke 15y ago
Twitter has made their nut as the collective tissue of the social web. Sure the tweets are actual content, but they're always about something external -- twitter is most often used for seeing what people have to say and share about something else. If they move into photos that's a move into primary content, it means they're no longer just dealing with hosting the connective tissue - photos, videos, blogs are the meat. I dont have any conclusion to draw from there, because im conflicted. Philosophically that really bugs me, but practically I'll probably use it.
- phlux 15y agoLook at it this way; they are thrashing and see photos as a natural extension of the tweet format as the photos are singular pieces of content, but they are far far larger than a tweet. If there is anything we know from twitters past; uptime will be minimal with a bandwidth intensive service such as this.
- hboon 15y agoDo they run their own CDNs now? Otherwise why would they have major issues hosting images? Scaling Twitter timelines was a way different problem.