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by dalton 14y ago
Twitter devs are being systematically intimidated, acquired and shutdown. There are credible rumors that the most popular 3rd-party clients will be summarily de-activated soon. What are they supposed to do now?
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by dalton 14y ago
If this works, the idea of having no first party clients is on the table. I am having an open discussion to figure this out. I just hope people are constructive.
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by dalton 14y ago
Twitter in its early days made zero sense to end-users, and it was only through the effort of third party developers that it went mainstream. I am getting tired of arguing with people about this. We will just have to agree to disagree. I
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by dalton 14y ago
Hi, if you would like to provide constructive feedback on this, please email me, or write a blogpost, or talk to us on github here: https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec
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by dalton 14y ago
Me: "Free Platform services are bad for a bunch of widely-understood reasons. I am going to try something crazy to propose a solution. There are a few examples of healthy platforms and I think we can learn from them. This approach may not w
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by dalton 14y ago
In my announcement of this project, I argued that Github & Dropbox are the best examples I can come up with as examples of healthy, innovating platform companies. I believe our approach is different in that App.net customers are develop
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by dalton 14y ago
We are posting API docs to github later today, tmrw am at the latest. I'm too busy trying to wrap that up to keep engaging in hn threads, so if I don't reply to other questions thats why :)
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by dalton 14y ago
This is a catch-22. I have to refer to the comparable service and API to give some idea of what we are talking about, and where the inspiration came from. Whether any startup founder likes it or not, their startups and projects will get p
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by dalton 14y ago
My core belief is that companies/people behave the way they do, in both good in bad ways, because of financial incentives. If this is a real market for this kind of paid service, I believe that sets up the correct financial incentives. It
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by dalton 14y ago
What are you going to do when TweetBot is shutdown?
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by dalton 14y ago
Your final conclusion is about right. Also, keep in mind, a large portion of the growth of Twitter was driven by the technical innovation of 3rd-party developers (ie the first iOS app) They built their service on the back of cool things dev
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by dalton 14y ago
I think there a number of interesting use-cases that were underserved by Twitter's decision to become a widescale media company. I described my vision of what opportunity I think was lost here: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-
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by dalton 14y ago
As I stated in the announcement I'm not sure if this project will make it either. I like to think it will, but only because we earn sufficient trust from a sufficient number of people over this 30 day process.
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App.net project update #1(daltoncaldwell.com)
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by dalton 14y ago
What I learned at imeem re:the music industry is that problems with "content industry" have nothing to do with technology, and have everything to do with social/political/regulatory issues. The music industry behaves the way they do because
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by dalton 14y ago
Here is how I responded to Michael via Twitter: "I don't want to move to New York because my wife and son live here with me, and we have a whole life outside of tech that matters. The thing about imeem and picplz is they seemed really stupi
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by dalton 14y ago
My belief is that it won't just be "Twitter with less users", but something entirely different: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been For example, I remember hearing that Yammer and StockTwits toyed with building on top o
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by dalton 14y ago
The product we have built is very similar, but not as ambitious as this proposal. That is the fork in the road. I am going to a followup post explaining this more. This first post was probably too long as it is.
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by dalton 14y ago
from http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines "projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web busi
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by dalton 14y ago
"Projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web businesses, or social networking sites. (Yes, this mea
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by dalton 14y ago
duly noted, we have been tweaking the copy and are re-editing the video right now. thank you for communicating in a constructive way :)
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by dalton 14y ago
agree. there will be no pay wall. Members can post their content publicly or privately and non-members can view public content
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by dalton 14y ago
The best incentive we currently have is the username claiming process. If/when project succeeds unclaimed usernames will be available to backers in the order that people backed. What other incentives would you suggest? Happy to take suggest
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by dalton 14y ago
I am appealing to developers because I think they are the intended audience. I only think that is the most important experimental test. From my personal blog post: "Although Paul Graham is specifically describing a hypothetical new search e
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by dalton 14y ago
What's wrong with just saying "We are a media company" if you are a media company. The definition of a media company is fairly well understood, right? Why insist that you occupy some slightly semantically different space?
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by dalton 14y ago
My belief is that this sort of service will enable new/interesting applications and real value that could have been unlocked if Twitter took a different direction: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
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by dalton 14y ago
I believe that the people running Web2.0 companies publicly and privately refuse to admit they are running media companies. ie "Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: We’re Not a Media Company" (source: http://allthingsd.com/20120130/live-at-dive-twitt
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by dalton 14y ago
There is a FAQ entry that attempts to address the question "OK, great, but what exactly is this product you will be delivering?" Are you unsatisfied with our answer in the FAQ? UPDATE I appreciate and agree with the feedback that we cou
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by dalton 14y ago
Hi, Dalton here. Please let me know if you have any questions for me about this. I wrote a blogpost about my thinking behind this here: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal
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by dalton 14y ago
I felt that discussing alternate business models was outside the scope of the post for 2 reasons: 1) I am an outsider, and no one understands what could or could not work better than the people working at Twitter. I am not sure what the pro

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