I have my doubts about Twitter being able to create an open and decentralized standard considering they still haven't even opened up polls to third-party clients. I imagine there's no technical reason for it, just business ones. If they want to make the big leap towards a decentralized standard, why not make the small leap and give features like polls to current app developers?
Jack Dorsey references [1] Stephen Wolfram's testimony to the US Senate where he outlined a solution for algorithmic transparency and content curation. My startup, The Factual, coincidentally built something similar to what Stephen envisioned as a "final ranking provider". Blog post with details: <a href="https://blog.thefactual.com/delivering-on-stephen-wolframs-vision-for-addressing-algorithmic-transparency" rel="nofollow">https://blog.thefactual.com/delivering-on-stephen-wolframs-v...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766086320680961?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766086320680961?s=20</a>
> A third-party Twitter client might be prettier and more functional than Twitter’s own client — shout out to Tweetbot! — but it certainly would not be more profitable.<p>I never understood this, why can't the API/firehose serve ads that would be presented in the 3rd-party apps?<p>Additionally 90% of users would naturally gravitate to the default app regardless, leaving 3rd-parties for cool/interesting/advanced/innovative use-cases. I still feel this was a mistake - not as some hippy idealogue - but from a ruthless capitalist perspective. This was their like button.
It's funny how things have turned. They had an open API with several 3rd party clients, and they killed them. Now they want to go even more open... Strange
How "open" is the Twitter API compared to other social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc... What is the lay of the land in this regard?