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The thing I don't get is: why build a Twitter client? Doing anything remotely useful with Twitter involves building something really substantial on top of the s

The thing I don't get is: why build a Twitter client? Doing anything remotely useful with Twitter involves building something really substantial on top of the stream of tweets and users.

Firehed 14y ago
Hardly. I find Twitter's official clients' UIs atrocious, and happily paid for a third-party's implementation with roughly the same functionality (TweetBot, if you care). I don't find data mining of mostly-mundane content terribly interesting, with the exception of people posting photos of their debit cards (https://twitter.com/needadebitcard https://twitter.com/needadebitcard)
- dkersten 14y ago
  WTF? Why do people post photos of their debit cards online?!?
  - modarts 14y ago
    Haha, glad to see I wasn't the only one shocked by that. That's pretty incredible actually.
    - Firehed 14y ago
      That's nothing compared to when one of the issuing banks @replied to the person doing it, telling them to remember to set up online account access. Yes, I'm serious.
- aviswanathan 14y ago
  Literally lol'd when I saw the needadebitcard feed.
mcantelon 14y ago
Twitter's official web client has no filtering capability, for one thing. For that reason alone I can't use it regularly.