Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps?

Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by jsdalton on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @02:30PM (#423822)

Well, except that Twitter is a private company and its API is proprietary in that sense, unlike http or email. (Maybe a better analogy would be people building MS Outlook plugins, way back when.)

I'm just not convinced that it's more than a fad within the development community, and I'm even less convinced that if it is indeed something more than a fad, it will remain confined to a single company's API.

But I've been wrong plenty of times before and I doubt anyone will notice if I'm wrong again. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by apgwoz on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @04:34PM (#423994)

But, people _could_ adopt http://identi.ca, and help make laconi.ca a better distributed platform and then transition to it. This isn't bound to happen though, but it _could_.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by ambition on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @09:14PM (#424352)

To the extent that any "more open than twitter!" competitor begins to gain adoption, twitter can simply open up a little bit to kill it.

Knowing this, why would anyone put a big financial and infrastructure commitment into a more-open twitter clone?

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by apgwoz on Thursday January 08, 2009 @07:41AM (#424812)

But, if Twitter opens up a bit we all win! Ultimately, laconi.ca is attempting to be a distributed, open Twitter. Any more openness in Twitter will help make that happen, because laconi.ca can take advantage of new API methods to build abstractions for it's own distributed service protocol.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by JulianMorrison on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:41AM (#424727)

laconi.ca is OSS and can't be killed. All it needs is volunteers and users, and a turn to the dark side by Twitter would supply them. As such it makes a nice "sword of Damocles".

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by rokhayakebe on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @05:25PM (#424071)

It is a bite more than a fad. I met someone and told them I was doing a startup and she did not know what a startup was. After I explain her that I wanted to create a tech company she seemed to understand a bit more but still proceeded to yarn. Fast forward three weeks later she asks me if I knew about Twitter "this website that.....". "This Website" showed me that Twitter was now mainstream.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by sachinag on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @06:14PM (#424139)

Way back when? So Xobni is an example of "what is old is new again." (I had no idea there used to be a ton of Outlook plugins...)

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Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one tired of Twitter apps? by skmurphy on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:09AM (#424475)

Some are still around, See for example http://www.caelo.com/

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