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Why doesn't twitter do these "smartening" things and make the experience more engaging and useful? Might even charge money for it!
by pierrefar 18y ago
Why 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.