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Twitter Moves To Curb Instagram Links

Posted by timothy on from the breaking-the-habit dept.

Hammeh writes According to a report on Mashable, Twitter have sent out messages to some of their high profile users prompting them to share images using Twitter's own service rather than Instagram links. The news comes 2 years since Instagram pulled support for Twitter cards and has been part of the continuing battle between the two social networks. With Instagram now having overtaken Twitter in terms of users, this may be a move to try and use high profile users to show off Twitter's own image and content tools.

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  1. Never forget... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Never forget: You are the product, not the customer.

  2. Re:the problem with Twitter by inflex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    +1 to this.

    I appreciate the terseness of Twitter's 140char limit, but it's a little *too* restrictive. I agree it makes people creative, but after a while the shine goes off that when you're just trying to get something important out there which could be better said with a few more characters rather than making people jump via a URL to somewhere else.

    Maybe they should just abolish the limit entirely. Not like we're confined to the restrictions of SMS as the data carrier any more.

  3. I in never post on ... by raymorris · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I never post anywhere. I don't post on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Slashd ... oh crap.

    Seriously though, I don't have a Twitter account. I looked at Twitter once or twice and I found it lacking either of two things that would make it useful. I might find it useful if I could either find stuff by topic or through a social NETWORK, but it doesn't seem to be made for searching or exploring, only for following a specific celebrity you've already chosen. I might be interested in feeds about a certain topic. Twitter doesn't do that. I might be interested in seeing what old friends are up to, finding all the people I went to high school with like Facebook. Maybe when I look up what my friend is doing I would click to see whatever happened to his hot sister.

    Twitter may have changed since I last looked at it, or those functions might have been there, but not just intuitive how to do those things.

    1. Re:I in never post on ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I use Twitter instead of SMS for alert messages,.This was because I had *three jobs in a row* where the chief architect and me, as a new lead systems guy, got more than 300 alerts per day for which the architects always said "just pay attention to the important ones", and refused to define what was "important". Then they'd flip out when I didn't respond to the "critical" alerts within 15 minutes, because Verizon insisted on waiting up to an hour to send all the messages as a flood, rather than when they were sent.

      Twitter, at least, solved that problem by delivering the messages instantly and consistently, and providing reviewable web access to all the messages.

  4. Re:the problem with Twitter by marcansoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    140 characters isn't enough ... in English. You should see the novels that Japanese people post on Twitter. Japanese is about 2x denser per character than English, so you can fit in a lot more stuff. I was amazed when I was able to compose an elaborate explanation for someone in Japanese and it still fit in one tweet (I'm learning the language).