Dustin Curtis wrote a post about being pitched stupid ideas. In it, he describes the times when he was pitched Vine & Pinterest, and thought they were stupid right away. Now, he regrets his gut reaction – because now Vine & Pinterest are successful. However, the post spawned a big debate on hacker news, and… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Social Media
Twitter Music leak
Looks like Twitter Music is a thing that could be coming, which would be an incredibly smart move from Twitter, given the proliferation of music discussion on the network already. Youssef Sarhan has the full details on his site. In the face of myspace’s redesign, Twitter could really capture something here. It could be what… Read more »
You are the product
I’m ruining this blog post by Derek Powazek by quoting the end, but… we should all stop saying, “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product,” because it doesn’t really mean anything, it excuses the behavior of bad companies, and it makes you sound kind of like a stoner looking at their… Read more »
Twitter is pivoting
Dalton Caldwell (the founder of rival, crowdsource-funded platform, app.net) discussing Twitter; Peter Chernin’s announcement shows us the future of Twitter: a media company writing software that is optimized for mostly passive users interested in a media and entertainment filter. The blog post, which reads as nothing more than a petulant attack on the Twitter eco-system… Read more »
Live-tweeting war
From Kernel Mag… This week, the state of Israel did something really rather extraordinary. You’ve probably read about it elsewhere already. The country used social software services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr to document the latest episode in its fight for survival against the Hamas terrorists in Palestine, posting videos to YouTube of its rocket… Read more »
Tweetbot for OSX formally released
Myself & a lot of my cohorts have had this app in beta for quite some time, and even in beta was was leagues ahead of any other Twitter client. It’s so important to me that I don’t think I would use Twitter anywhere near the same amount as I do now without a client… Read more »
A new look for TweetDeck
TweetDeck has been a bit of a flawed product since Twitter took it over. Not only was the first major release since acquisition a long time ago, it was deeply buggy and some of the major flaws still exist. Today Twitter announced a new look for TweetDeck across all platforms. It doesn’t say if the… Read more »
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey is a well thought-of person. A founder of Twitter and an innovator in many ways. Square, his “other” company appears to be doing very well for itself and created its own unique niche – mobile payments. It partnered with Apple, Starbucks and everyone else to grow and even took advice from senior Apple… Read more »
NetBot
This is the big revolution app.net needed. A proper iOS client backing it. The fine folks behind Tweetbot are doing this, aptly called Netbot. The most interesting quote from their website I could notice was… Still have friends on Twitter? You can use Netbot to crosspost your Posts to Twitter. You can also use the… Read more »
Twitter clients dying
The news that Twitter was fundamentally changing the way it allows third party apps to access its service was a clear sign that they want more control over their eco-system (to garnish revenue through ads). Now more news is coming, via a tweet – ironically – that Twitter is to kill the official OS X… Read more »
