With Twitter stocks at record lows, and a constant display of ineptitude from executives, is there space for a similar platform?<p>What made Twitter great in it's infancy was the developer platform support, which has all but disappeared (interestingly, Instagram seems to be going the same way with it's sandboxed mode).<p>As Snapchat has illustrated time and time again, there is a definite market for close-circle sharing, particularly among 18-25 year olds. Facebook is no longer cool, so what's next? Snapchat is ideal for short-term communication, but there seems to be nothing between permanent storage in Facebook's datacenters and 24h expiration on Snapchat.<p>If a new competitor were to launch, from my perspective it would need to focus on:<p>1) Strong (and on-going) developer support
2) Close-circle sharing
3) Medium-term storage<p>Any thoughts?
There's always space.<p>There have been countless attempts by new platforms to take over Facebook, Twitter, etc, but they always fail because 90% of users are so glued to what they already know. They don't want to join a network that all their contacts aren't already on. Additionally, a good portion of said users also don't mind ads or privacy invasion, so those aspects of new platforms only ever seem to appeal to users who know a thing or two about infosec.<p>For what it's worth, I'm no longer a Twitter user, but when I was I'd go through my activity each month or so and delete the majority of my tweets, retweets, and likes. Sure, they're still stored server-side, but it just reminds me how much I wish a platform could exist with little to no retention, like you said. Maybe a (transparent) purging of data regularly? Way too much to ask for, but it's a novel thought.