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Twitter To Add Places and User Streams
adeelarshad82 writes "Twitter has announced at the Chirp conference that its roadmap will include locations and user streams. Twitter will maintain and curate its own database of locations, such as hotels and restaurants, and make the database open to developers. Moreover, the API for user streams, a technical name for real-time data that will be for desktop apps only, will be available to users within the next few days. Through this API developers will be able to take virtually all Twitter data and make it available to desktop apps in real time. Twitter used its first Chirp conference to assuage the fears of some of its developer base, who are worried about whether they will be left out in the cold following the establishment of an 'official' BlackBerry app and the acquisition of the Tweetie mobile app. Judging from the announcements at Chirp and a recent post which might indicate death to third party services like TweetDeck, it's safe to say that Twitter wants to push developers to start building services that leverage Twitter instead of just filling holes."
Stop building your whole business plan around a new and rapidly evolving non-standard more-or-less closed communication platform controlled by a single entity.
And I highly doubt 3rd party applications will go away, just various extra services those 3rd parties provide (and often charge for) will get less value.
But so far Twitter has no replacement for my TwitDroid and Twirssi clients. And I highly doubt they will ever create an official twitter client for irssi.
People just want to tweet, not buy a mattress. Twitter is just a social phenomenon anyways, soon to join myspace and friendster in the trashbin of the internet.
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Good luck with that.
Twitter is already totally overwhelmed. They can't even provide a search interface to tweets that are more than a week old. Google and the Library of Congress should charge Twitter for archiving their data for them.
Ok.. Jeff Foust is a great guy to follow if you're into spaceflight. He goes to all the conferences.. reports what he hears. He also makes up the hash tags and most people follow his lead. Hash tags seem to work but they're primitive and they take up valuable characters. Twitter doesn't seem to know how to separate metadata from message. The list functionality they've added recently is interesting. Being able to save searches is also interesting. As for third party clients... yeah, the website is superior, imho.
How we know is more important than what we know.
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as always.....
Yeah nice one, how about adding a couple of hunderd more characters to your messages? 140 characters was fine when SMS messaging was big in 1998!
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Places for user streams? That's a funny name for a urinal.
I agree, and I admire you, sir, for not being like them and posting short sentences in a website just so that a bunch of people on the internet can read what you are thinking.
Oh, wait...
So, can someone please just tell me?
Is it safe for us to continue tasering our Meth-Addled sheep?
Why say more when that is all there is to say? And contrary to twitter, this isn't just for reading, but also for replying, as you aptfully demonstrated. Oh yeah, I know twitter allows replies too, in a twisted, convoluted way that forces you to stay glued to it to know what the snippets mean in context... thanks, but no thanks. We have forums for the talking, RSS and email for the instant updates. What does twitter offer on top of that? Why so defensive, passive-aggressive, and implying a point* which you don't even have ? Because I called a bunch of morons morons? Well hey, don't shoot the messenger ^^ Apologies to retarded people though, it was not called for (and no, that's not a joke).
* (that what I said is wrong because I'm "doing the same thing one does on twitter", which is a.) not true and b.) would just be an ad-hominem even if it was true, and therefore stupid and giving further credibility to my claim that the only people that really *care* about Twitter are, in fact, idiots)
flame? yeah.. but trolling?! o_O is that the shitty, cowardly way of saying "he's right and it hurts - so let's bury it"?