whatevermatt

What do we expect when we take free candy from strangers? Of course it's creepy.

This is just another reason to curate the things we let into our lives.

I was about to upvote you until you used the word Gruberism to describe a phrase that is probably older than he is.

To expect enduring openness from a privately-owned medium or enduring stability from a single point of failure is naïve.

From the announcement:

- Display of tweets in 3rd-party services. We need to ensure that tweets, and tweet actions, are rendered in a consistent way so that people have the same experience with tweets no matter where they are. For example, some developers display “comment”, “like”, or other terms with tweets instead of “follow, favorite, retweet, reply” - thus changing the core functions of a tweet.

While I don't like the idea of 3rd-party services treating Twitter as a white-label medium, it's hard to believe this is coming from the same service that is famous for letting its users establish convention, and then supporting that convention. (@, #, etc)

(Edit: s/email/announcement/)

"To our knowledge, this is the first such realistic experiment."

I find it hard to believe that nobody has tried this before in a closed lab setting. Perhaps the scale (3000 installs on 98 machines) is the differentiating factor. Or perhaps the others were kept quiet.

My, how times have changed for FLOSS. The project aims to "help keep Google, Facebook and Apple in check" with Microsoft making not so much as a blip on the radar.