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Now that these consumer-facing companies are being pressured to monetize, the fuzzy warm days of everyone sharing everything are over. Now we get to see who's r

Now that these consumer-facing companies are being pressured to monetize, the fuzzy warm days of everyone sharing everything are over. Now we get to see who's really holding the good cards and who's been getting by on bluffing. For my money I think Twitter is more dependent on third parties than third parties are on Twitter. Not just Instagram, but the entire ecosystem of apps that grew up around Twitter in the bygone days of warm fuzzies. Twitter seems like someone throwing a great party who slowly throws out everyone interesting because they want to be the center of attention. Once all the interesting people are gone though, the partiers are trickling out, and the interesting people who made the party hot have moved on.

danso 14y ago
> For my money I think Twitter is more dependent on third parties than third parties are on Twitter. Not just Instagram, but the entire ecosystem of apps that grew up around Twitter in the bygone days of warm fuzzies. Really? I mean, in the current scenario? The first-party Twitter apps on mobile devices are pretty strong, enough that I don't even use TweetBot even though I paid for it. And while Instagram was nice, I don't think I used Twitter to view Instagram...in fact, I'm pretty happy with Twitter just being used to share links, with which I click through. The value of Twitter is that its network effect is such that "everyone" (at least most people in media and tech) are on it. They may have gotten on their through third-party apps, but now Twitter has done an adequate job on their own apps and it'll be awhile before the Twitter network will ever migrate to some other place (and where to, Google+?)
- ricardobeat 14y ago
  The iOS app is nice, but I don't use it nearly as much as the "official" desktop app (which has been completely abandoned). Gone are the days when people would respond in real-time, now everybody is drowned in a huge feed.
  - drp4929 14y ago
    If you don't want to get drowned by your feed then you want to keep an eye on http://signups.simplrinc.com http://signups.simplrinc.com

danso 14y ago

> For my money I think Twitter is more dependent on third parties than third parties are on Twitter. Not just Instagram, but the entire ecosystem of apps that grew up around Twitter in the bygone days of warm fuzzies. Really? I mean, in the current scenario? The first-party Twitter apps on mobile devices are pretty strong, enough that I don't even use TweetBot even though I paid for it. And while Instagram was nice, I don't think I used Twitter to view Instagram...in fact, I'm pretty happy with Twitter just being used to share links, with which I click through. The value of Twitter is that its network effect is such that "everyone" (at least most people in media and tech) are on it. They may have gotten on their through third-party apps, but now Twitter has done an adequate job on their own apps and it'll be awhile before the Twitter network will ever migrate to some other place (and where to, Google+?)

ricardobeat 14y ago
The iOS app is nice, but I don't use it nearly as much as the "official" desktop app (which has been completely abandoned). Gone are the days when people would respond in real-time, now everybody is drowned in a huge feed.
- drp4929 14y ago
  If you don't want to get drowned by your feed then you want to keep an eye on http://signups.simplrinc.com http://signups.simplrinc.com