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Uh, sending a C&D to a shady application that uses their trademark in its name doesn't really spell "alienating their developer community." They are one of the
by jeremymcanally 17y ago
Uh, sending a C&D to a shady application that uses their trademark in its name doesn't really spell "alienating their developer community." They are one of the most engaging API providers I've ever seen; they actually talk to people via their Twitter account, engage developers via the mailing list, etc.
And doesn't this joker think people have created Twitter clones? Identi.ca, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc. None of these have succeeded because they are in some degree crappier than Twitter. Plus, users matter. Why use something similar to Twitter if no one cares and there's no one to follow?
Ridiculous linkbait.
- axod 17y ago>> "FriendFeed, Facebook, etc. None of these have succeeded" Umm. Sorry? Come again? None of these have succeeded? By exactly which metric are you measuring success here? Please explain exactly how twitter is even as successful as friendfeed let alone facebook. edit: -1 points for questioning how you're measuring friendfeed and facebook as failures? My how times have changed.
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- ErrantX 17y agoFacebook and Friendfeed's public realtime stuff hasn't been a massive "viral" success in quite the same way as Twitter has been.
- poppysan 17y agoWow, what a horrible response. Sometimes its better to admit you are wrong, and didn't mean Facebook and FriendFeed. By ANY measurements (viral success or otherwise) Facebook is more successful than twitter.
- ErrantX 17y agohuh? I never said it in the first place :) how could I admit to being wrong?
- steveklabnik 17y agoHe _did_ say "public, realtime stuff."
- jeremymcanally 17y agoNo, they are not successful. Facebook is successful for different reasons (not real-time updates; this, if anything, has damaged their success). FriendFeed and Identi.ca are not wildly popular. Have you seen either of these on CNN or heard them on the radio? No. They were latecomers that offer little to their users past a service they're already using (likely Twitter or something else).
- axod 17y agoOK so you're measuring success based on short term PR 'buzz'. Thankyou. Personally, I use different metrics.
- steveklabnik 17y agoI think it's just that you're measuring overall success of the site (where you're undoubtedly correct), and he's talking specifically about the real time aspects (in which he is undoubtedly correct.)
- axod 17y agoAh of course. Facebook isn't realtime! ;)
- steveklabnik 17y agoIt's not that, it's that people aren't using Facebook for real time communication. "Real time" is incidental to the Facebook Experience (tm) whereas it's one of the biggest parts about Twitter. Nobody is texting to Facebook's short number to update thier status; they're all installing apps to import their Twitter feeds. The difference is significant.