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Making Twitter Smarter
- pierrefar 18y agoWhy doesn't twitter do these "smartening" things and make the experience more engaging and useful? Might even charge money for it!
- ivankirigin 18y agoTheir strategy is to be open enough so others can do the work for them.
- pierrefar 18y agoIf they're going with the platform strategy, I'll offer an analogy: Windows has basic features built in like Notepad and Calculator, but that doesn't mean others can come along and build a much better implementation of these programs. I fear they're running the risk of creating a platform that's too "bland". [I like TipJoy BTW :) ]
- sh1mmer 18y agoTheir strategy isn't really very open though. With heavy rate limiting and lack of a decent auth mechanism it's pretty sucky. I really don't like having to store a user's password. Once twitter have OAuth and XMPP I'll think of them as open.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI thought it was Twitter that made XMPP a popular topic? And can't you just use Gnip? http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/twitter-plays-nice-xmpp-firehose-data-feed-to-gnip/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/twitter-plays-nice-xmpp...
- arockwell 18y agoThe xmpp stream is not publicly available anymore.
- fallentimes 18y agoI think they've held off and even cut some features until the core product completely works & the uptime issue is solved.
- pierrefar 18y agoIt's been good lately, except the search is having issues.
- fallentimes 18y agoAgreed, which is hopefully a sign of features to come. During the summer it was awful.
- AndrewWarner 18y agoI think building Firefox addons that make keywords clickable is a wasted business. It won't be long before Twitter adds that functionality to their site. You can kind of already do that through search.twitter.com