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Even though the slow leak of these stories in the tech press is not good PR, Twitter has mind share, so it may not matter. Celebrities, journalists, and typical
by nhebb 14y ago
Even though the slow leak of these stories in the tech press is not good PR, Twitter has mind share, so it may not matter. Celebrities, journalists, and typical tweetoholics probably don't care.
- nvk 14y agoI agree with you, until their clients start to break.
- danudey 14y agoStats have shown that the vast majority of people use the web interface, the mobile web interface, and Twitter's own clients (in that order). After that comes third-party clients in a small slice of the pie. Also, non-end-user clients (e.g. Hootsuite) won't get shut out because they provide value above and beyond 'list of tweets', and Tweetdeck is owned by Twitter now so they're going to be fine too. Twitter could turn off all third-party clients tomorrow and the vast majority of Twitter users wouldn't notice anything (until the minority started complaining loudly). Even then, most people would probably think 'Well, just use one that works then.'
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- nvk 14y agoI think most of the heavy users/contributors probably use a client.