[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-13 Thread Tammy Fennell
Have to admit it is kinda scary to develop for twitter, but maybe when more plans are released we'll understand twitter's plan a bit better. I don't begrudge Tweetie for being acquired, good for them, i'm sure it was a nice deal for them. It's a very narrow tightrope twitter walks though with

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-13 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
This is certainly a risk we all face. However in my mind there are ways Twitter can do a better job in indicating where we should and should not concentrate effort. For example, there are things that Twitter has had in its V2 roadmap for years now, and some of us have decided to try and implement

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Michael Macasek
Ryan, Great news thanks for the update! Jesse, Well said. On Apr 12, 10:40 am, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: One more from me. People have been asking for specific details around Tweetie for Mac and I wanted to make sure we clearly message our plans as we know it. To be clear,

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Eric Woodward
Ryan, Thanks for clarifying, finally, at least. Rebranded Twitter or not, Tweetie as owned and developed by Twitter basically reinforces and confirms everything that we posted on the Nambu blog this morning: Twitter will take anything significant built around Twitter for itself, 100%. Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Dmitri Snytkine
While this is bad news to handful of iPhone based app developers, it's a great news for millions of iphone users who will be able to get Twitter app for free. On Apr 12, 2:46 pm, Eric Woodward e...@nambu.com wrote: Ryan, Thanks for clarifying, finally, at least. Rebranded Twitter or not,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Jesse Stay
Eric, I disagree. This just means they've put us on notice that if our apps completely revolve around Twitter we risk going into competition with them. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, although it is frustrating, I agree (this is nothing new - they've been doing this for the last

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
I've spent eight months on a new Twitter client myself, and I had planned to start showing it at Chirp. Mine is in-browser so I suppose it's not quite the same situation, but in reality I do think they are all, for the most part, in competition with each other - no? On Apr 12, 1:12 pm, Isaiah

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/12/2010 01:58 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) wrote: I've spent eight months on a new Twitter client myself, and I had planned to start showing it at Chirp. Mine is in-browser so I suppose it's not quite the same situation, but in reality I do think they are all, for the most part, in

[twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
I seem to remember some debate over how uberTwitter comes out with such a large share in that analysis, but either way everything I have seen has pointed to 40% of tweets posted coming from Twitter.com. In my mind it would be smart for people to think about how to get market share from that piece

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread Chad Etzel
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.com wrote: I seem to remember some debate over how uberTwitter comes out with such a large share in that analysis, ... I've always been amazed by this, actually... check out:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/12/2010 04:44 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) wrote: I seem to remember some debate over how uberTwitter comes out with such a large share in that analysis, but either way everything I have seen has pointed to 40% of tweets posted coming from Twitter.com. In my mind it would be smart for people

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: What's happening with Tweetie for Mac

2010-04-12 Thread znmeb
- Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) or...@orianmarx.com wrote: I seem to remember some debate over how uberTwitter comes out with such a large share in that analysis, ... I've always been amazed by this, actually... check out: