Comments on: Dear Twitter, please don’t kill your market

By: Neicole

Neicole — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:21:01 +0000

Oh, I still love Twitter, too. I think what they actually meant to do was elminate REPEAT tweets, where you’re tweeting the exact same message over and over again. I believe they just didn’t think about all the ways that recurring tweets are used (as per my latest blog post). Right now, I can still manually do recurring tweets. It’s just more of a pain in the tush.

In fact, it’s because I love Twitter that I’m concerned. As I said, I don’t think it’ll make it as just a social network. And I want Twitter to make it!

By: Doug Greathouse

Doug Greathouse — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:39:53 +0000

So what do I think happens next? Twitter will have less Spam (Yeah!) and the amount of people on twitter may drop. Most of those lost will be spammers but unfortunately many of them could be content creators who do not believe they have the resources (time or money) to get their message out effectively with Twitter without the help of automated recurring tweets.

Now let’s take yet another step back and not forget the world was still spinning before Twitter cut out recurring tweets. As business owners we need to adapt with technology. Twitter is just one of many tools at our disposal. The greatest tool we have is our minds, continue to use that to think of new and creative ways to grow your business. My message to twitter: You broke my heart a little but I still love you!

By: Luke Gedeon

Luke Gedeon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:22:33 +0000

I am a big fan of twitter and have been using it a very long time, but I am also excited to see an open source competitor growing up, and many other alternatives also coming along.

I think twitter’s elimination of repeats is the wrong move for twitter. The spammers already have very effective tools to get around this. For example, using multiple link shorteners and multiple landing pages combined with a little random text. The users they will lose are the ones they want the most.

That said, this is probably good for the users in the long run because it opens the door wider for competition. Competition, if nothing else, spurs on creativity. It is even good for Twitter because they are less likely to be treated as a monopoly by the government.