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https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/ https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/ has a great breakdown of Twitter's histo
by transitivebs 4y ago
https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/ https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/ has a great breakdown of Twitter's history in this respect.
TL;DR they used to have an open API and various third-party clients, each of which had their own flavor. BUT this made it really hard for twitter to guarantee a good UX and even harder for twitter to implement an ad-driven business model.
- creakingstairs 4y agoI'm not arguing for an open API, I'm arguing for more options in content algorithms. These would be under their sole control. Aside from that, thanks for the link. That is a great post!
- transitivebs 4y agoI think at a practical level, opening up their API for non-watered-down third-party clients would be the only true way to add more optionality to twitter's feed UX. Since I don't see open sourcing the actual feed algorithm to be something that would practically happen any time soon (which makes me a sad panda).