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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by danilocampos on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:59PM (#4394521)
> That's right, they all failed because the users don't care about the technologies and the APIs.

I'm so glad we agree on this. Users indeed do not care about technologies or APIs.

They care about great experiences.

Twitter does not excel at great experiences. If they did, third party clients would not have to exist.

Since they do, 23% of Twitter users choose to consume the network via superior-to-them, third-party offerings. Twitter has signed the death warrant of those products. Craigslist would be a valid counter-argument had it been initially built on the strength of third-party clients and then killed them. (PadMapper doesn't count, before you bring it up. It came to craigslist after dominance, not before.)

Twitter, on the other hand, has two native clients that began their very lives as third-party products.

We'll see. Maybe Twitter will be just fine after taking their most engaged users and sending them elsewhere.

Or maybe the users will follow their tech-savvy friends to a better experience, which again, isn't a hard category to trounce Twitter in.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by continuations on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:17PM (#4394571)
> They care about great experiences.

> Since they do, 23% of Twitter users choose to consume the network via superior-to-them, third-party offerings.

So what you're saying is that the vast majority (77%) of Twitter users choose the native Twitter offerings because they offer superior experiences.

OK.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by tehmaco on Friday August 17, 2012 @08:20AM (#4395979)
Or they're not aware of any alternatives, as the official Twitter app came pre-installed on their phones.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by continuations on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:47PM (#4398036)
Which means they don't care enough about "great experience" to bother with looking for another app.
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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by MrMan on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:53PM (#4394674)
Twitter is like Cosmopolitan or People, not like "technology." Except to the extent that all media relies on technology to enable it.

Twitter is an experience. I actually hardly use it because all I can figure out it is good for is passively receiving spam from people I am following as they try to market their ventures to me.

But I recognize that early adopters mean nothing in this context, technology is irrelevant. You guys need to start trying to create some real tech and stop this fantasy that markup is some kind of high tech stuff in 2012.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by ry0ohki on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:37PM (#4394818)
"They care about great experiences."

I think you just made Twitter's point for them. Yes, their current apps have problems, but I think they are really worried about the varied Twitter experience people are having on all of the various implementation of it. If someone has a bad experience on Echofon, they might blame that on Twitter, so I think you are right, and this is Twitters (possibly flawed) way of holding onto that.

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by natrius on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:38PM (#4394629)
"Craigslist would be a valid counter-argument had it been initially built on the strength of third-party clients and then killed them."

You haven't made a case for why this distinction matters. I don't think it does.

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