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I think it might be hard to monetize it, because as soon as they add any friction then perhaps competitive services will start up with the same API. If someone
by cromulent 17y ago
I think it might be hard to monetize it, because as soon as they add any friction then perhaps competitive services will start up with the same API.
If someone else provided a twitter service, with the same API, then twitter clients (including web clients) could easily be updated to subscribe to both. Or any number of twitter services. Decentralized twitter. Is there any reason why tweets need to go through a central hub?
- edd 17y agoCompetitive services have already been created. There have been attempts to do it all: decentralise it, improve it, extend it to more characters, add video, add photos. Especially during their bad points where they were down every 5 minutes due to load. Twitter has enough of a user base that its stupidly hard for anyone to compete with it. The core system is "very simple", the user base is what counts in this game.