Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
by johnchristopher on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @05:37PM
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But why hasn't a twitter clone/alternative that would allow more than 140 characters taken off yet then ?
Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
by bunderbunder on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @06:42PM
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There's an interesting startup that I think does that. It's called Facebook.
Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
by aikah on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:41PM
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Then why are people using Twitter then ? You cant say Facebook is like Twitter with more characters in the messages,it simply doesnt work.
Re:The Great Microservices vs. Monolithic Apps Twitter Melee
by FooBarWidget on Thursday August 21, 2014 @03:16AM
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Because Twitter has a lower barrier to entry. Yes the 140 character limit sucks. But because of the character limit, people are more inclined to open Twitter in the first place. The psychological advantage of that outweights the disadvantage of hitting the 140 character limit later, at least for users.
But the thing is: Twitter is extremely easy to use and the barrier to tweeting is extremely low, more so than email. People are more inclined to tweet than to send an email, even for complex subjects. As much as I dislike it, this is how things are, so better accept it and use it to your advantage than trying to fight it or complain about it.