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The sad part of this is that Twitter was going in this direction: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter
by ethank 14y ago
The sad part of this is that Twitter was going in this direction:
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html
I don't think the reaction would be nearly as bad if Twitter was better at making clients for their own service. They aren't very good at it. Twitter for Mac (née Tweetie) is dying on the vine.
TweetBot is 10x better on iOS than the native client, and Osfoora on the desktop.
Why not meet the challenge of an ecosystem in conjunction with ad revenue rather than just blanket rule against it?
- rkudeshi 14y agoI disagree that Twitter's official iPhone client is "bad." You may like Tweetbot more, but I am a power user who actually prefers the official client. It's not a question of good vs. bad, it's more like good vs. better (where better is a personal preference).
- ethank 14y agoDo you disagree that they have abandoned their native Mac client? Personally I don't think the "Discover" tab is worth its real estate in the menu.
- Aissen 14y agoDitto on Android. Plume is so much better than the official client. This kind of things make you wonder about missed opportunities for Google+, where you can't have a proper alternative client…