Comments on: Twitter.com about to get stickier!

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:52:49 +0000

I understand your point and as you say they need to be able to make money from the site and all that traffic it will now get.

For me, so long as there’s a paid opt-out option for the ads, I think it will work.

If they get it wrong, I guess all we need to do is use seesmic or tweetdeck.

By: David Locke

David Locke — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:56:07 +0000

The day I see an ad on Twitter is the day that I will sign off of Twitter. There should be an option to pay not to see ads. Ads suck. Ads, particularly animated ads ruin my experience of a site. I quit using MapQuest, because of an obnoxious ad that wouldn’t go away. I keep post-it notes handy, so I can cover the ads up. Otherwise, a site quickly becomes unusable.

I love TweetDeck. I only use Twitter.com when I absolutely must like when I’m thanking new followers for following.

Yes, Twitter needs a way to bring in money, so they can pay for more infrastructure and prevent fail whales, but advertising is not the way.

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:35:53 +0000

Thanks Tom.

Even though I have (for years) been a BIG advocate of FriendFeed, as opposed to Twitter, I have to admit I see more value in Twitter today than any other platform. It’s great and it’s getting better.

By: Tom Buckland

Tom Buckland — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:15 +0000

A very good article which raised some valid points. I have been somewhat surprised lately that Twitter.com doesn’t have ad’s but I like it. I think they should try and generate funds another way. I wouldn’t be too bothered with a few ad’s but I wouldn’t want the ‘clean look’ to get all muddy. I think Twitter.com is onto a winner with the new updates and never cease to amaze me.

The third party apps I think really make Twitter unique. I love the fact I can update Twitter from my phone app. I don’t think I’d use Twitter as much if I couldn’t update from anywhere, anytime with such ease.

Overall Twitter.com is doing really well to claw back its users to the website. I look forward to the new innovations.

@xxtomxx

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:37:23 +0000

Firstly, get a hair cut!

I like the ad idea myself – so long as there’s a paid-opt-out option.

I think established users of the desktop apps will carry on using them, but fewer new users will see the need.

Cheers Justin

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:27:21 +0000

I think Twitter possibly saw the development of apps like Tweetdeck as a useful tool for the heaviest Twitter users – which those guys could use to ’spread the word.’

With the recent changes, I now use Twitter.com for 100% of my desktop tweets.

Thanks Pete.

By: Justin Parks

Justin Parks — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:01:20 +0000

Sorry to break the “bald avatar” mould but I aint shaving my head :P

So good points Jim, I have been reflecting on these moves myself and the significance of driving more people onto the twitter home site instead of utilising the service via Tweetdeck or Seesmic and it makes sense for them to want more people hitting the home page.

I think it will be a long time yet before these apps are rendered useless however, they just offer much better usability in my book which the website hasn’t nailed yet.

As for the ad stuff, as we have discussed before, I hope to god they ditch that idea or at the very least offer a subscription service which removes all adverts from your stream. If it was 12 bucks a year, I would pay it without hesitation and many more would as well I think, and 12 x 44 million accounts is a nice healthy sum in anyone’s book.

By: Peter B

Peter B — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:44:44 +0000

I can’t say I fully understand the technology (actually, I don’t understand it at all!) but it always seemed bizarre to me that Twitter allowed folk to create these clients that took all the good stuff about their concept and ‘host’ it within a different app.

I’ve been a Tweetdeck fan since joining Twitter and I’m only just considering moving back to Twitter.com because of the list function.

This activity you’ve pointed out is serious back pedalling – and it was avoidable even without the benefit of hindsight.

Peter

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:01 +0000

Interesting post, thanks for sharing the link. BTW: REALLY like your avatar picture.

By: Brotha Tech

Brotha Tech — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:39:06 +0000

I did a blog post on this: http://bit.ly/30EDUB – Twitter is really trying to blow my theory out of the water