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Medium wants you to have a Twitter account.
by cliveowen 13y ago
Medium wants you to have a Twitter account.
- grinich 13y agoMedium expects you have a Twitter account.
- 650REDHAIR 13y agoWouldn't most modern writers have a Twitter account anyway? If you're publishing your piece online wouldn't you want everyone to see it?
- cliveowen 13y agoIf you already have an audience, maybe, but if you don't, then it's just an avoidable restriction.
- pbhjpbhj 13y ago>an avoidable restriction // How does having an account restrict you, in the context of being a writer wishing to publicise your work?
- lucian1900 13y agoIt restricts Medium to people with Twitter accounts. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone has one.
- Touche 13y agoYou can get them for free, using a throwaway email and fake identity if wanted. Why is it preferable to get a Medium account?
- lucian1900 13y agoBecause you'd have to deal with one less party (trust, security, reliability, support). If you aren't already a Twitter user, it's simpler to have the option of making a Medium account.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoIf given the choice between two options, ceteris paribus, I'd choose the one without the Twitter account restriction as well.
- kibibu 13y agoWhat happens when Twitter crashes and burns, and now you can't access your blog?
- baddox 13y agoI would bet a small amount of money that Twitter outlasts Medium. And if Medium outlasts Twitter, do you think Medium will just sit by and say "well that sucks that none of our users can access their blogs"?
- kibibu 13y agoIn that case, think of a 24 hour datacenter outage then. Unless Twitter gives Medium more information about usera on authentication than I think they do, I don't know how Medium could possible verify the owners of each blog.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoIf you are stuck behind the great firewall of china, no actually.