I think I'm like most of us in that I had completely forgotten about annotations. They sound cool.<p>But I suspect that many of us also don't much <i>want</i> Twitter to get better anymore. We'd rather see an alternative get good enough to switch to.
<p><pre><code> > We were at Twitter’s first developer conference,
> an event called Chirp. And indeed, Will.I.Am’s
> armchair interview was just one of a few clear
> indications that Twitter really wasn’t just for
> geeks anymore. Instead, Twitter had suddenly
> blossomed into a company that aspired to be a
> player in media and entertainment and
> advertising, with its eye focused on becoming
> the giant, publicly-traded company it is today.
> Twitter began to take its first tentative steps
> away from its geeky roots, which set the stage
> for a nerd backlash that still hasn’t fully abated.
</code></pre>
Wait, what? Am I the only one who remembers that Twitter launched at <i>SXSW</i>? They have <i>never</i> had geeky roots. They were always a technology product targeting media and entertainment folks.<p>A big part of Twitter's initial appeal was that it was the only social network that had honest-to-God celebrities on it. I remember when being able "follow" some famous actor still carried a frisson of excitement, like you just ran into them in a restaurant.
Oren Michels (co-founder of Mashery) blogged about Twitter as a platform ripe for IoT last October (after Twitter developer/platform conference).<p><a href="http://www.mashery.com/blog/twitter-redefined-communications-backend-apps-and-iot" rel="nofollow">http://www.mashery.com/blog/twitter-redefined-communications...</a>
Slightly disagreeing with Anil here. Yes, Twitter is popular with developers, so then why is it not fostering them and making developers their star players?<p>Twitter Should Be A Public Utility
<a href="http://blog.higg.so/2015/06/12/on-twitter/?rev=1" rel="nofollow">http://blog.higg.so/2015/06/12/on-twitter/?rev=1</a>
I can't be the only one who sees william as a total fraud. Seeing him at a tech conference (or really endorsing anything tech related) is the best way to tell if it's been organized by out of touch execs or people that actually care.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFA7DUM008" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFA7DUM008</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl2h-Ol0pSI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl2h-Ol0pSI</a>
Hey ya'll Twitter is a government project...look at it's first members, a bunch of GI's and Navymen...since when were they trendsetters? Oh I guess since Twitter...and of course #arabspring...also remember how overnight there were front facing cameras on every phone... Twitter + Selfies.. then Snowden, oh NSA / surveillance you so trendy<p>PS I love you for reading this<p>May all beings propser