What if Twitter goes rogue?
Mike Ellis,
electronic museum,
May 25, 2011
The web community, I fear, is about to learn once again the dangers of depending on a centralized service. These dangers are articulated in this post. The author notes three trends pointing to the coming consolidation of the Twitter business model:
- First, "Twitter made some changes to their API which essentially takes the developer focus away from Twitter clients and instead suggests a focus on data" (it also eliminates anonymous harvesting of the Twitter stream),
- Second, "they just announced the acquisition of Tweetdeck for an astonishing $40m,"
- Third, "they have just in the last few days started sending emails by default on all replies and re-tweets"
Together these point to the insertion of advertising into the stream, with it being difficult to filter or remove the paid content. And are you willing to "pay a membership fee in order to use the service... pay in order to not have ads in my stream?"
- First, "Twitter made some changes to their API which essentially takes the developer focus away from Twitter clients and instead suggests a focus on data" (it also eliminates anonymous harvesting of the Twitter stream),
- Second, "they just announced the acquisition of Tweetdeck for an astonishing $40m,"
- Third, "they have just in the last few days started sending emails by default on all replies and re-tweets"
Together these point to the insertion of advertising into the stream, with it being difficult to filter or remove the paid content. And are you willing to "pay a membership fee in order to use the service... pay in order to not have ads in my stream?"
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