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It is very sad that mavericks kill good projects for their own benefit.

by erenkaplan 4y ago

klyrs 4y ago
The sad thing is that third-party apps are actually good for twitter. Musk continues to cut his nose to spite his face.
- dusing 4y ago
  In what way are they good? How they provide revenue for twitter.
  - Sunspark 4y ago
    People are the product. If they are using the third-party apps they are producing content on the platform for others to engage with, which drives traffic to the site and allows for delivery of ads to others.
  - ascagnel_ 4y ago
    - Twitter could have turned the apps into a revenue opportunity (gate API access behind the paid Blue service for users, charge developers per user for API access) - Twitter apps had the reputation at one point of being “UI playgrounds” — a good place for designers to experiment with different ideas around presentation of the feed; while Twitter didn’t directly benefit from it, these apps provided a massive amount of design iteration that enabled Twitter to steal the best ideas
    - sundaeofshock 4y ago
      Putting the API behind Twitter blue might not have worked. The paid badge has become a mark of derision amongst a portion of the user base.
      - ascagnel_ 4y ago
        It would go a long way towards making such a service acceptable ("I'm only paying for Blue for Tweetbot!"). The other option would be to charge developers for per-user access to the API, which developers could build into subscription payments (eg: Twitter could have charged Tapbots $2/user/month for access, so Tweetbot would have to charge their users $31+/year on iOS).
  - astrange 4y ago
    Just put the ads in their feed. Twitter makes no effort to target the ads as it is, so they can't be any less targeted.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
  Yes. A lot of these users are just going away - not migrating to a different app.
PenguinCoder 4y ago
Make no mistake, there are no benefits to Twitter doing things like this.
- squarefoot 4y ago
  Having control on which ads are shown to users probably is one.
  - jackvalentine 4y ago
    They never even tried to insert ads in to the API feed for third party clients.
rsynnott 4y ago
> for their own benefit. I'd question the 'benefit' bit; this seems clearly bad for Twitter.

It is very sad that mavericks kill good projects for their own benefit.

klyrs 4y ago

The sad thing is that third-party apps are actually good for twitter. Musk continues to cut his nose to spite his face.

dusing 4y ago
In what way are they good? How they provide revenue for twitter.
- Sunspark 4y ago
  People are the product. If they are using the third-party apps they are producing content on the platform for others to engage with, which drives traffic to the site and allows for delivery of ads to others.
- ascagnel_ 4y ago
  - Twitter could have turned the apps into a revenue opportunity (gate API access behind the paid Blue service for users, charge developers per user for API access) - Twitter apps had the reputation at one point of being “UI playgrounds” — a good place for designers to experiment with different ideas around presentation of the feed; while Twitter didn’t directly benefit from it, these apps provided a massive amount of design iteration that enabled Twitter to steal the best ideas
  - sundaeofshock 4y ago
    Putting the API behind Twitter blue might not have worked. The paid badge has become a mark of derision amongst a portion of the user base.
    - ascagnel_ 4y ago
      It would go a long way towards making such a service acceptable ("I'm only paying for Blue for Tweetbot!"). The other option would be to charge developers for per-user access to the API, which developers could build into subscription payments (eg: Twitter could have charged Tapbots $2/user/month for access, so Tweetbot would have to charge their users $31+/year on iOS).
- astrange 4y ago
  Just put the ads in their feed. Twitter makes no effort to target the ads as it is, so they can't be any less targeted.
onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
Yes. A lot of these users are just going away - not migrating to a different app.

PenguinCoder 4y ago

Make no mistake, there are no benefits to Twitter doing things like this.

squarefoot 4y ago
Having control on which ads are shown to users probably is one.
- jackvalentine 4y ago
  They never even tried to insert ads in to the API feed for third party clients.

rsynnott 4y ago

> for their own benefit. I'd question the 'benefit' bit; this seems clearly bad for Twitter.