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What Twitter could have been.
An audacious proposal.
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I'm interested, especially since Twitter is killing 3rd part app access, but I worry that it won't gain enough traction with enough people to make it worth while.

This actually sounds pretty sweet. I'm pretty sick of facebook and twitter has definitely been losing it's sheen.

I'm sure it's going to be nice, but my first thought:
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Edwin wrote:

I'm interested, especially since Twitter is killing 3rd part app access, but I worry that it won't gain enough traction with enough people to make it worth while.

Seeing how many alpha geeks have signed up for it already, I have hope that it will at least be to Twitter what Google+ is to Facebook: a smaller, but more focused community with higher-quality average posts. I haven't quite decided if I want to lay down the $50 for it though, we're in the middle of prepping to move/buy a house and I really don't want to spend anything I don't have to.

Is Twitter actually killing off third party clients? I've heard a couple of client authors grumble a bit but there's still a ton of other clients out there and I'd say well over half the people I follow don't use official clients. They really want to nuke all that?

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Is Twitter actually killing off third party clients? I've heard a couple of client authors grumble a bit but there's still a ton of other clients out there and I'd say well over half the people I follow don't use official clients. They really want to nuke all that?

You can have twitter clients but you can't build anything App-like with their API because of the increasingly onerous daily download restrictions.

I'm curious to see how this pans out, but I'm not convinced that this is the way to revolutionise social networking and return control to developers and users. If everything's still hosted and managed by a single entity, and the only thing that changes is the payment model, does that represent a significant enough change to be worth the migration?

I'd much rather see things go down a distributed path, a la Diaspora. I know it's not the hot new thing, but it's improving and growing every day.

Ranger Rick wrote:

Google+ is ... a smaller, but more focused community with higher-quality average posts.

You're welcome!

wordsmythe wrote:
Ranger Rick wrote:

Google+ is ... a smaller, but more focused community with higher-quality average posts.

You're welcome!

Haha, seriously. You're a beast!