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Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

LaSean — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:43:28 -0000

I agree with your core argument and the comments here, but isn't all of this the risk of betting on a service you're not paying to use? You mentioned that companies should want to keep their customers as happy as possible. While these changes may come to the detriment of Twitter (and Google Apps) growing their business and market share who is the real customer?

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

James Mishra — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:34:01 -0000

That's why I prefer very low baselines that gradually rise up. Though, after a significant amount of such rising, there is always a danger that the baseline will fall again.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Koffee — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:32:50 -0000

And Facebook hasn't changed the rules a hundred times to screw (some) developers, come on, get real, Twitter should act in its own interests and its alone taking into account all pros and cons of its actions, but to worry excessively about its dependants is not right, they took the risk and they should suffer/gain based on how they act/respond.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

robdiana — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:11:38 -0000

Jesse,
I agree about the damage to the brand and that the economy may trigger more of it. With the recent update of Identi.ca the competition is heating up. If some of the third party tools start failing due to the API limits, we may see some more movement to other services like Identi.ca.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Rob Diana — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:19:00 -0000

Dominic, Identica's problem is with their recent update. I believe there were some problems, but they are working on them. I made the IM analogy when Identica was first released. IM's still do not talk to each other, but we do have standards and multi-service clients. Microblogging will probably go the same way.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Dominic/IRWebReport — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:34:00 -0000

I was hoping tonight to start using Identi.ca to feed to FriendFeed and then publish to Twitter. Two problems: 1. Indenti.ca isn't being picked up in FF. 2. If people respond on Twitter, I can't see it in Indenti.ca (or FF). It feels like the days before IM platforms could talk to each other. Are we going backward?

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Jesse Stay — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:31:01 -0000

Let's just say this means opportunity. No one is safe.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Jesse Stay — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:28:01 -0000

I don't like it, and I think it's damaging to brand image, but I expect to see much more of this as the economy tanks.

Re: The Danger of Changing The Baseline

Louis Gray — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:59:00 -0000

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