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Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.. So eMarketer says Twitter will have stronger mobile ad revenue than Facebook, essentially saying that Twitter is the future of mobile ads unless Facebook does something quick.
Let's face it, Sponsored Stories is another way of saying Promoted Tweets.
Then if Twitter is doing so well, why is it that they and Facebook have limited their developer base? It's only going to harm them in the future. I understand that they want most people to use Twitter and thus get even greater mobile ad revenue, but there has to be a balance.
Let's face it, Sponsored Stories is another way of saying Promoted Tweets.
Then if Twitter is doing so well, why is it that they and Facebook have limited their developer base? It's only going to harm them in the future. I understand that they want most people to use Twitter and thus get even greater mobile ad revenue, but there has to be a balance.
Twitter not updating its own app because Apple is running scared? Priceless!
Anyone has sillier joke than this?
Unless you are a celebrity , or have over 50,000 followers and want everyone to dissect every word you Tweet,....there is no reason to use Twitter.
Let it go
Let it go
I never liked Twitter. Facebook and Linkedln are more than enough.
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Basically you use twitter like spam mail. This doesn't make twitter any more attractive.
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Basically you use twitter like spam mail. This doesn't make twitter any more attractive.
Their world market share isn't much higher. In the us it is but worldwide its much lower.
Advertising. My main source of income is through "MyLikes"... I've tried other websites but that seems to be the best one, at least for me. SponsoredTweets is another good one. Tons of people just tweet out any type of ad and hope people will click on their links but that's just not how it works. Targeted advertising will make you the most money. It's so simple, yet it amazes me how many people don't take advantage of it. You'd be surprised what companies will pay for just one click to their website.
I just find it hilarious when someone says Twitter is a waste of time, and yet they have 400+ posts on a forum... The irony is hilarious.
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They stopped development of the application because they have worked with Apple to embed it into Mountain Lion - C'Mon Man!
They stopped development of the application because they have worked with Apple to embed it into Mountain Lion - C'Mon Man!
Not true at all... People don't click on spam links, and by chance they do, they won't ever again. You need interactive links that people learn things from... Which keeps making them come back for more. Which in the end you make money from.
You would never make money from posting garbage links... not to mention you would lose your followers.
Seems like twitter can't make their mind up what they want as a client.
Pretty much the first thing they did when they bought Tweetdeck was drop the iOS version(s) in favour of the "official" twitter app - now on osx they would appear to be heading back in the reverse direction and dropping the official app in favour of Tweetdeck.
Consistency people - could we have some please?
Pretty much the first thing they did when they bought Tweetdeck was drop the iOS version(s) in favour of the "official" twitter app - now on osx they would appear to be heading back in the reverse direction and dropping the official app in favour of Tweetdeck.
Consistency people - could we have some please?
Its a crap app anyway, Twitterrific is a far better app for OSX and Tweetbot is the best for the iphone.
Don't like the recent developments from Twitter, but neglecting (or even shutting down) the Mac app is absolutely disappointing. 
If Twitter is indeed on a free fall, this would be a tragic victory of the naively pictorial, tasteless, verbose Facebook over the elegance and perspicuity of Twitter's prose. #chirp
I don't get why someone hasn't come along to provide the same exact service that Twitter does only without looking like an outdated piece of crap.
A. Get rid of the character cap or at least double or triple it. Politicians, actors, and everyone else look retarded when putting "2 be" "luv" "guna" and all the other shortened versions of words in order to not go over the character cap.
B. Provide some way to have links that aren't shortened URLs. That looks ugly and unnecessary. vBulletin has had a better system for putting links in a post since 2000, yet Twitter looks like it's one step above 1998's standards with their bitly.com links.
C. Have a picture and video system to be integrated into the service. Or at least have it be easier to embed YouTube videos. The pictures though should be a no brainer. Why have that be on a separate service (twitpic) and only make the whole thing even more of a cluster-f than it already is.
If someone came along and quickly lived up to these standards while having servers that could handle a quick increase in load, they could own the market that Twitter has now and Twitter would be the next myspace. If they did it well enough, they could also potentially expand and steal Facebook's marketshare as well. I know that's easier said than done, but there are plenty of companies (Apple, Amazon, Google) that have the means necessary.
A. Get rid of the character cap or at least double or triple it. Politicians, actors, and everyone else look retarded when putting "2 be" "luv" "guna" and all the other shortened versions of words in order to not go over the character cap.
B. Provide some way to have links that aren't shortened URLs. That looks ugly and unnecessary. vBulletin has had a better system for putting links in a post since 2000, yet Twitter looks like it's one step above 1998's standards with their bitly.com links.
C. Have a picture and video system to be integrated into the service. Or at least have it be easier to embed YouTube videos. The pictures though should be a no brainer. Why have that be on a separate service (twitpic) and only make the whole thing even more of a cluster-f than it already is.
If someone came along and quickly lived up to these standards while having servers that could handle a quick increase in load, they could own the market that Twitter has now and Twitter would be the next myspace. If they did it well enough, they could also potentially expand and steal Facebook's marketshare as well. I know that's easier said than done, but there are plenty of companies (Apple, Amazon, Google) that have the means necessary.
99% of my Tweets come from the iOS app, my usage of Twitter would be non-existant without the app. In fact, Twitter works so much better on the app than the webpage.
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Use Twitter then you can answer your own question.
If all you follow on Twitter are celebrities you will get nothing out of it. I love twitter, I think it's an awesome resource for access to information from every conceivable subject - I follow lots of science/archaeology twitter users.