Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive

Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by hockley on Monday October 05, 2015 @02:48PM (#10333913)

If they went back to their roots as a messaging API for other apps, they would not have to build new apps. Become the messaging backbone for the Internet. That's plenty of scale to go after.

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by untog on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:58PM (#10335302)

> Become the messaging backbone for the Internet. That's plenty of scale to go after.

Where's the money in that, though?

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by sjg007 on Monday October 05, 2015 @08:01PM (#10335881)

In the data. Advertising, etc..

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by scrollaway on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:10PM (#10335654)

I hope they don't. The last thing we need is a proprietary solution for "the messaging backbone for the internet". =/

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by nailer on Monday October 05, 2015 @03:43PM (#10334315)

Pretty sure that's the basis of removing the 140 char limit for DMs. Some people are way more likely to use Twitter than an 'SMS' type messenger that wants phone numbers that they don't know.

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Re:Twitter Names Jack Dorsey Chief Executive by hkmurakami on Monday October 05, 2015 @05:01PM (#10334909)

Precisely the reason why LINE is so popular in Asia particularly between people who just met.

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