My twitter client will be ready in about a month. I hope I have unique enough features to survive.
On 11 April 2010 02:27, Arnaud Meunier <arnaud.meun...@twitoaster.com>wrote: > +1 for the metaphors :) > > We all know what Twitter would like to see. No surprise here, nothing > extraordinary, just advices we already were aware of. I mean... Who > intended to code another photo sharing service or another desktop > client before these annoucements? I guess nobody. > > Anybody who has been seriously thinking about starting a project > around Twitter in the last year already knew he'd have to make > something innovative enough to drag attention, customers, whatever > he's looking for... > > In a word, there's nothing new with these annoucements and this > acquisation. The only thing "new" is simply the fact that it's now > "officially said". Quite annoying for all the "old school > apps" (thinking to existing clients, analytics services, media sharing > tools...) Even for some of the new one, by the way, as a part of the > applications who's going to emerge will probably wonder "what if > Twitter decides to make a product of my concept?" > > Inherent risk of a business based (even partly) on an existing > platform? Yes! > > And the thing is I'm very curious to see how Twitter is going to deal > with this at Chirp, and what (really new, this time) they're going to > announce. For example, a smart monetization policy (around advertising > or sponsored tweets) linked to the API could be an answer for most of > the "old school apps". > > Arnaud - http://twitter.com/twitoaster > Twitoaster - http://twitoaster.com > > > Le 11 avr. 2010 à 01:04, "zn...@comcast.net" <zn...@comcast.net> a > écrit : > > > > > ----- "Jesse Stay" <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Why are you filling holes in Twitter? Why not rather create your own > >> holes and use Twitter to fill them. When you own the dirt you have > >> control over what grows in that dirt. > > > > I think we've pretty much exhausted the holes and dirt metaphor, and > > I'd like to propose a different one. A business is defined by the > > answer(s) to the question, "Who is going to sell what to whom?" So, > > what are the needs of the Twitter "customer base?" > > > > Raffi has posted some things he'd like to see, and I read the blogs > > regularly and have some clues as to what people like @scobleizer, > > @mashable, etc. think Twitter should become. And it all boils down > > to what real problems people have, what costs them money and time, > > what they don't know that could hurt them, and so on. Once we know > > what the problems are, how can the *Twitter* ecosystem solve them? > > > > @znmeb > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
