Comments on: Developers Bailing on Twitter

By: Racing School

Racing School — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:22:09 +0000

Twitter is going through on a downward spiral. Already there have been many negative stuffs written on Twitter. Friendfeed on the other hand is gaining more market share by the day.

By: Racing Schools

Racing Schools — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:22:09 +0000

Twitter is going through on a downward spiral. Already there have been many negative stuffs written on Twitter. Friendfeed on the other hand is gaining more market share by the day.

By: Identi.ca Will Succeed Because Its Technology is Viral | Stay N' Alive

Identi.ca Will Succeed Because Its Technology is Viral | Stay N' Alive — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:09:36 +0000

[...] a change in the hostname for your Twitter code), developing for Identi.ca is just too easy! Again, developers jumping ship could very well mean the demise for [...]

By: Sidebar Chat and Asides on Blogs

Sidebar Chat and Asides on Blogs — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:28:43 +0000

[...] Plugin by Alex King. Below is the code I use for that. In the event that Twitter goes under (which people in the industry have speculated might happen) I also have a dormant backup plan to use the Sideblog plugin for wordpress. You can see that [...]

By: jULIO hENRIQUE mORIMOTO » Blog Archive » Desenvolvedores to Twitter estão chutando o balde!

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:57:33 +0000

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By: Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:50:52 +0000

My handing off of Net::Twitter (to Kee Hinckley, by the way) was a bit more nuanced than just frustration at Twitter.

I was maintaining Net::Twitter, and I didn't really use Twitter personally. I had an account, sure, but I wasn't doing anything interesting, and certainly wasn't eating my own dogfood, as it were.

The folks at Twitter were responsive to the few times I encountered bugs in the API, but I really didn't have the insight to recommend wholesale changes, other than "Hey, can you make it so Twitter doesn't crash and burn in a stiff breeze?"

I also found myself struggling with the random emails I'd occasionally get from people who assumed that I'd be more than happy to teach them perl. I would get the most inane questions from people struggling with "Hello, World!" who obviously didn't have the base knowledge to handle an OO module. This is NOT, I might add, a Twitter problem.

In the end, Kee emailed me with a list of things that he thought Net::Twitter should do, and I couldn't disagree. I knew I didn't have the "give-a-shit"-ness to make the wholesale changes he proposed, so I made him Co-Maintainer and I'd expect him to come out with Net::Twitter 2.00 at some point.

All that said, however, I don't think that Twitter is where the "cool things" are happening. I've recently become aware of http://identi.ca/ and the open Laconica software behind it, which, while still raw, is driving this arena in ways I don't think Twitter can follow easily. They just added a Twitter API module. http://use.perl.org/~perigrin/journal/36956 Go figure.

Laconica does not have 100% of what it needs to gain any sort of wide scale acceptance, yet. It will. It's open, it's got a voracious crew of nerds behind it, and it's coming up fast.

By: Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air - zakeh blog

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:46 +0000

[...] month, Jesse Stay wrote that developers were bailing on Twitter, thanks to outages and broken APIs. With changes like this, despite improved uptime of late, the [...]

By: twitter’s ‘consummization’ bad for app developers? : One More Thing

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:47 +0000

[...] on its platform might lead them to look to other social media platforms, and that definitely can’t be good for [...]

By: FriendFeed: A Guide for Twitter Users | Stay N' Alive

FriendFeed: A Guide for Twitter Users | Stay N' Alive — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:16 +0000

[...] all the frustration lately about Twitter going down, disabling features, and developers leaving the service, people still keep coming back for some reason. Frankly, there just isn’t anything that can [...]

By: Twitter Continues to Fail Developers, Why They Will Still Succeed | Stay N' Alive

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:43:55 +0000

[...] going to dub this Part 2 of my Twitter Love/Hate fest – this should be my last installment for awhile on this topic, I hope. In reality, I really love [...]