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I think the OP means that it's not something non-developers want/care. Even if twitter went mainstream with 3rd developers, it was still apparently something pe
by enra 14y ago
I think the OP means that it's not something non-developers want/care. Even if twitter went mainstream with 3rd developers, it was still apparently something people wanted.
PG also advices is that you should make things people want, people as users who use the app. People don't care about the tech or how nice it's for developers. If you build something that people like to use, and have nice API terms, people will use it and developers will develop on top of it.
Probably the only reason why people would care is that the apps and the whole network would be better, but that's huge chicken&egg problem.
If you look at the state on Windows Phone platform, Microsoft is even paying to people to develop on it, but no-one still care's because there are no users.
- dalton 14y agoTwitter devs are being systematically intimidated, acquired and shutdown. There are credible rumors that the most popular 3rd-party clients will be summarily de-activated soon. What are they supposed to do now?
- lazerwalker 14y agoPeople will complain, and the vast majority of Twitter users will continue to use Twitter, albeit via first-party clients. It sucks for third-party devs, and it sucks for us power Twitter users who like our third-party clients, but look at every time Facebook introduces major changes: people huff and puff about switching to something else (Google+, etc), but the status quo doesn't actually change because the value is in the relationships they've formed on the service, not the way they interface with the service.