Instead of trying to do everything itself, the company threw open its doors and let other people build little applications that make it more useful. To date the company hasn't done much to generate revenue, but that too may be changing, as last week it announced a plan to start placing ads among the tweets.īut the really cool thing about Twitter has been its business model. It has raised nearly $60 million in venture funding, becoming the Next Big Thing in Silicon Valley. Created only four years ago, Twitter has 105 million users and is delivering 55 million tweets, or messages, per day. Follow the right people (i.e., smart ones) and you get a constant stream of links to the most interesting articles on the Web. But Twitter has also become a kind of hopped-up, customized news feed.
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So I understand why they’d want alternate-reality versions of Twitter - like the one Tweetbot offered - to go away in the near-term.Twitter has become a fantastically popular Web site on the basis of the incredibly simple idea of letting people zip out 140-character blog posts to anyone who wants to read their stuff. I like being in Tweetbot, less so being in Twitter.Īnd let’s look at this from Twitter’s perspective: the company will probably notice that I’m spending less time there, but will this affect their revenue? After all, I didn’t see many ads while accessing their system through a third-party client. While the underlying information is the same, the experience of the environments is very different. But where was it that I was spending my time? Am I a Twitter user or a Tweetbot user? While the two share a lot in common, they’re different information environments. I will probably be spending less time there.
The bottom line: Twitter is a lot less compelling to me today than it was two days ago.
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(I suspect that herein lies the primary driver behind the change to Twitter’s API ads is how the company makes money.) (Read: ads.) That means that the posts I see are the ones I signed up for by following particular accounts, not ones that paid for the privilege of being brought to my attention. Parsing out what I’m looking at (and why) is more work than I want to put into it.Īnother major difference between the two is that Tweetbot doesn’t show “promoted” tweets. Whereas the former presents a simple chronological list of items, the latter scrambles the order of tweets based on what it deems to be interesting to me. The timeline - the main component of the Twitter experience - is also significantly different between Tweetbot and Twitter.
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So accessing Twitter on the Mac means either using the website or through a third-party app like Tweetbot. Twitter, on the other hand, has an iOS app but discontinued its first-party macOS app earlier this year. To begin with, Tweetbot has native apps for both operating systems I use day-to-day (macOS and iOS.) These apps are coherent (if not 100% consistent) between both platforms: I can easily move between one and the other. You see, it turns out I don’t like being in Twitter as much as I like being in Tweetbot. The change is making me rethink how much of my attention I apportion to this place. Or rather, I should say I spent time there. Twitter is my primary social network I spend lots of time there. Now, it’s gone.įor me, this is not a trivial change. For example, one of my favorite Tweetbot features was its “Activity” tab, which gave me information about how people were interacting with me in Twitter. As a result, accessing Twitter through third-party apps like Twitterrific and (my favorite) Tweetbot is now much worse. Yesterday, Twitter implemented significant changes to its APIs.
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