Twitter Challenge
msg:
Twitter presents their audience with a challenge - if you don’t like what we’ve done, you have every means to make it better for free, so don’t complain, do something.
Originally posted as a comment by gbattle on betaworks using Disqus.
For nearly every other company, the comsumers’ response to the “Twitter Challenge” is to give up, walk away, and never think twice. Other companies have equally open APIs (many inspired by Twitter), yet why is the consumer response in the case of Twitter’s problems, “Man, this is broken, I should spend 30 hours hacking their API to scratch my itch”? They’re doing something right, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is.
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gbattle reblogged this from giantrobotlasers and added:
Both very insightful comments, but I’ll add two items to consider to explain what I mean by the “innovation stack” (it...
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giantrobotlasers reblogged this from thegongshow and added:
I think the answer is that there isn’t much to it. Facebook, for example, exposes lots of data to the platform and...
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thegongshow reblogged this from msg and added:
For nearly every other company, the comsumers’ response to the “Twitter Challenge” is to give up, walk away, and never...
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