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You are framing this as a matter of personal ethics, rather than a business decision, so it's difficult to answer your question. You feel that Twitter did Tumbl
by YuriNiyazov 14y ago
You are framing this as a matter of personal ethics, rather than a business decision, so it's difficult to answer your question. You feel that Twitter did Tumblr and Instagram wrong. I tend to think that taking sides between two giants is dumb - the giants won't notice, but you'll get hurt.
If I had already built the Twitter functionality in, I would not preemptively rip it out, I would wait for them to shut that functionality off. Then I would raise a huge stink about it, get the name of the service in the news and maybe capture some Internet good will.
If I hadn't built Twitter functionality, I wouldn't spend any resources on building it until after launch.
- sbauch 14y agoTo clarify, I'm certainly not approaching this from a personal ethics standpoint. It is I suppose a question of social service authentication elasticity. Will removing twitter at the outset significantly reduce my sign ups to the point that it would be smarter to deal with the repercussions of losing API access in the future? Or are most users not so sensitive to which service they use to sign up for something, such that if facebook is the only option, I can guarantee a consistent experience for all users going forward?
- YuriNiyazov 14y agoAs far as I can tell, the services in question didn't lose access to Twitter authentication, they just lost the ability to take the users' social graph out of Twitter