Sunday, February 24, 2013
Twitter kills my favorite Twitter app for AndroidIn August, Twitter turned its back on the sort of independent developers who built their community for them. Now, my favorite Twitter app for Android, Falcon Pro, has hit Twitter’s artificial user limit.
They have other apps, (like an incredible …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Twitter and Two-Factor AuthenticationTwo-factor authentication is a pain in the ass. Just ask my Google account or my Dropbox account. But it’s a no-brainer. Savvy users will flock to it, seeing the value in the headache. Less-than-savvy users don’t need to be forced into it, but Twitter is as good …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 waysWhat ever happened to seeing a link and clicking on it? I don’t want garish, heavy embedded crap all over Twitter. But alas, it’s not my company or design to screw up, so I’ll stop whining (but not sulking).
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Planet of the TweetsTwitter’s extensive research identified four ways news outlets can better engage their audiences.
Funny how all four look like things Twitter’s early and most “engaged” users have been doing since the service’s inception.
The same users Twitter is frequently screwing with …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets, in an email to users today:
[ … ] on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed.
IFTTT is …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Twitter continues to value advertiser utility above user experienceRomain Dillet at TechCrunch explains it like this:
Now when you land on a company profile page, you will see a big brand name with a small @username below, a gigantic header photo, a small logo next to every tweet, photos of new …
Friday, September 14, 2012
Twitter forced to turn over protester’s deleted tweetsMike Isaac, writing at All Things D:
In the end, the New York DA and the judge used a legal maneuver to put pressure on Twitter, threatening to hold the company in contempt of court and levy steep fines if it didn’t hand over the data. …
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Twitter files appeal in major social media caseJeff John Roberts provides an update on Twitter’s latest legal battle over at GigaOM. I think it’s fascinating that Twitter is living two lives:
They’re vigorously defending the rights of their users to maintain control over what happens to their tweets …
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tent - the decentralized social webTent is decentralized, not federated or centralized. Any Tent server can connect to any other Tent server. All features are available to any server as first-class citizens. Anyone can host their own Tent server. Tent servers can also be run as Tor hidden services …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter APITwitter’s Michael Sippey posted an update at their Developers Blog yesterday announcing that the company will:
essentially be crippling many of the third-party apps that got the company where it is today; and severely bloating and degrading the user …