“These are all fundamental aspects of Twitter, and they have been mangled. And these items do not even get into the more technical issues with Twitter’s API implementation, which I could write another blog post about. Or about how Twitter took a vibrant ecosystem full of capable developers excited about their platform that other companies …
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#sad
“I guess it’s about respect. It’s about a relationship I had, and I think many of us had, with Twitter, that doesn’t seem to be there anymore. And that’s frustrating, and disappointing. But mostly I guess it’s just sad.” – Ed Finkler
Terms of Services Kinda Like Open Licenses – But Evil
The Combined Arms Research Library has a good post on the upside of the latest version of Twitter’s terms of service (“Twitter can do WHAT with your photos?“) . The language is very similar to the MIT/X11 License in that the copyright holder is licensing their work to others and the licensees can do as …
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“Remember that time you quit Twitter”
One of the Ebook Backers noticed that while the essays in the ebook (and on this blog) talk about how I zero’d out my Twitter account after a month long hiatus – but as of his reading – I was as active as ever. Yes – as they say on The Facebooks – It’s complicated. …
Twitter Poured Cement in a Bucket of Rocks
The barrel gets filled with stones whose size represents the size of the market-opportunity. Operating systems and office-applications are boulders; there’s only room for a few of each. Here, a glance, the barrel is full. But, of course, there’s lots of space between the boulders. This space is can be filled with rocks, and the …
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Killing Time
This morning, even before my first cup of coffee – I went through my stable of Twitter accounts and started deactivating them. Easier and more straightforward than I expected. That was before Leo Laporte’s Buzz Kill post hit my radar: “It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, …
Twitter’s a Memory Hole
“…it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four This weekend, I opened up my …
Shortly Over Part 2: Twitter Returns Long URLs
After maintaining years of awkward, inconsistent URL shortening behavior because of some vague argument about SMS capabilities – Twitter has announced links passed through their service may or may not be shortened to t.co. “A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed …
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Find ‘Twitter’, Replace with ‘Second Life’
In the past week both Apple and Twitter have carpet bombed on their respective development communities. As I’ve written about previously – I’ve been off Twitter now for nearly 2 months. This week an interesting switch flipped in my head. When I hear ‘Twitter’, my head replaces it with another corporate site I have little …
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I’m Garrick and I’ve Been Twitter Free for 30 Days.
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 17 At some point in late February – after 7,367 posts – I stopped visiting Twitter and deleted all the Twitter apps from my machines. My world suddenly …
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