Dermot Daly:
When the dust settles, if the experience of using twitter affects the benefits of using it I’ll stop using it. If it doesn’t, I won’t.
Yeah.
When the Twitter dust settles
Dermot Daly:
When the dust settles, if the experience of using twitter affects the benefits of using it I’ll stop using it. If it doesn’t, I won’t.
Yeah.
I agree, but I think it is more than just being annoyed with ads. The native twitter apps don’t possess the functionality that anyone who is more than a novice or extremely casual user of twitter needs. If I was forced to use Twitter for iPhone, my usage would drop dramatically as the experience of being on twitter would just not be the same. The backlash from this would have been lessened if twitter had accompanied their announcement with the release of updated (and decent) apps.
Problem is that the native apps were third party apps (not to mention the @ and # thing). This is the closest I’ve seen to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. I have no doubt that Twitter will probably stay alive even though they’re shifting to a more Facebook style of doing things because Facebook still exists. Actually it would probably be more accurate to compare it to G+. I think they’ll lose a lot of the people in the community that drove Twitter forward, though.
People often times quit driving forever when a road gets closed for repair work… right?