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Twitter wants to validate each domain that has a card so they can approve & exert control. They cannot control what products a ribbon customer promotes via ribb

by meritt 14y ago

Twitter wants to validate each domain that has a card so they can approve & exert control. They cannot control what products a ribbon customer promotes via ribbon. If I wanted to sell illegal drugs or child pornography photographs, those would show up on twitter.com & twitter apps in a nice card-like experience complete with a 'Buy Now' button. That's why they shut it down.

kevingadd 14y ago
I don't buy your logic. Why wouldn't the same apply to Vine or Instagram?
- notatoad 14y ago
  because vine is owned by twitter, and instagram doesn't have any twitter card support anymore.
anu_gupta 14y ago
There are plenty of porn and drug references on Twitter already. Twitter doesn't care. It's very clear that Twitter want to control every possible aspect of the monetisation of Twitter.
- NewAccnt 14y ago
  Given the earlier fallout with the twitter 3rd-party clients, and similar things going on on other "platforms" I think we need a new name for these services other than "platform" (since it is not stable, it's a bit of a misnomer) but more specific than "service". I propose "network traps", "progress sinks" or "sucker tub". I don't know but I keep getting a recurring imagery when thinking of these situations as of someone building a house on a raft, which immediately capsizes, but the buoyancy of the house causes the raft to lift out of the water.
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zbruhnke 14y ago
Yes because it would be TERRIBLY hard to institue a whitelist for domains that could be issued twitter cards and have an API call to register and either allow or not allow it. all I really mean by this that if Twitter were not being malicious here they would be able to work with Ribbon and other companies who have similar ideas that could help change the internet for the better.
timdorr 14y ago
It's likely because it's all wrapped up in Twitter's web interface. To the average user, it looks like you just paid Twitter for something. If you have any sort of problem with shipping or the product itself, you're likely going to go back to where you bought it from: Twitter. They're simply protecting themselves from a series of problems that would be completely out of Twitter's control to help in any way. Twitter would always come up the loser for any of Ribbon's mistakes. They don't even have a way to punt any support issues over to Ribbon.
- mynameisvlad 14y ago
  To be fair, it does say "Not affiliated with Twitter" in a blue background.
  - badclient 14y ago
    Many people wouldn't read or remember that detail.
    - mynameisvlad 14y ago
      Really? Because it's pretty prominent. It's the first attention-seeking detail after the Buy Now button.

by meritt 14y ago

kevingadd 14y ago

I don't buy your logic. Why wouldn't the same apply to Vine or Instagram?

notatoad 14y ago
because vine is owned by twitter, and instagram doesn't have any twitter card support anymore.

anu_gupta 14y ago

There are plenty of porn and drug references on Twitter already. Twitter doesn't care. It's very clear that Twitter want to control every possible aspect of the monetisation of Twitter.

NewAccnt 14y ago
Given the earlier fallout with the twitter 3rd-party clients, and similar things going on on other "platforms" I think we need a new name for these services other than "platform" (since it is not stable, it's a bit of a misnomer) but more specific than "service". I propose "network traps", "progress sinks" or "sucker tub". I don't know but I keep getting a recurring imagery when thinking of these situations as of someone building a house on a raft, which immediately capsizes, but the buoyancy of the house causes the raft to lift out of the water.
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zbruhnke 14y ago

Yes because it would be TERRIBLY hard to institue a whitelist for domains that could be issued twitter cards and have an API call to register and either allow or not allow it. all I really mean by this that if Twitter were not being malicious here they would be able to work with Ribbon and other companies who have similar ideas that could help change the internet for the better.

timdorr 14y ago

It's likely because it's all wrapped up in Twitter's web interface. To the average user, it looks like you just paid Twitter for something. If you have any sort of problem with shipping or the product itself, you're likely going to go back to where you bought it from: Twitter. They're simply protecting themselves from a series of problems that would be completely out of Twitter's control to help in any way. Twitter would always come up the loser for any of Ribbon's mistakes. They don't even have a way to punt any support issues over to Ribbon.

mynameisvlad 14y ago
To be fair, it does say "Not affiliated with Twitter" in a blue background.
- badclient 14y ago
  Many people wouldn't read or remember that detail.
  - mynameisvlad 14y ago
    Really? Because it's pretty prominent. It's the first attention-seeking detail after the Buy Now button.