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That thinking only works for so long. If you drive away enough users, eventually your network effect starts to weaken making it easier for even more users to le
by superfrank 4y ago
That thinking only works for so long. If you drive away enough users, eventually your network effect starts to weaken making it easier for even more users to leave.
I also think it's an odd decision now that they're exposing view count to users. Driving away users on third party clients will cause that number to drop.
- throwaway46829 4y agoAlso, even if they weren't making money from such users, if this is a common experience, the opportunity to make money from them with advanced warning to switch to the official client existed but has now been lost.
- raydev 4y ago> If you drive away enough users We don't have any hard numbers but I'm curious why you think network effects would apply here. Twitter's audience is not the same as it was 10 years ago, when the tech/tech-adjacent Twitter audience made a huge fuss over API access, and they were probably generating close to a majority of the content at that time. I think it's likely this group is too small to matter now.