If Twitter doesn’t love you, the IndieWeb would. I wish Twitter clients like @tweetings @twitterrific @tweetbot @TalonAndroid would support Micropub for publishing and Microsub for reading/following. Spend a few days to convert your apps and support the independent web. #BreakingMyTwitter
Imagine if we could use these clients not only to interact with Twitter, but almost any website on the planet? How cool would it be if I could use Twitterific to post to my WordPress website and Dries could use Tweetbot to post to post to his Drupal site? Maybe I could dump Feedly and Inoreader and dovetail Aperture to work with Tweetings or Talon to read all the content I’m interested in?
Manton Reece’s Micro.blog platform is an interesting multi-use case/example that has quickly usurped lots of social functionality using IndieWeb building blocks and has a handful of posting clients while it serves as a reader as well. (And of course it still allows cross-posting to Twitter as well.)
Since these W3C specs are full recommendations and work on the open web with dozens of implementations, it could allow social media apps/clients like those mentioned to not only gain new audience, but give them tremendously more autonomy as businesses and prevent any future social networks from pulling the rug out from underneath them the way Twitter has done in the past. The open web can bring back true competition to the space and collectively allow the community to keep innovating and creating while they’re interacting.
I thought I read somewhere that Twitter’s API guidelines/requirements forbids third party clients from crossposting for fear that a popular one could siphon users to some competing service.
I think you’re right but I can’t remember to be honest
There are corporate (possibly blessed?) clients that do crosspost, but that’s inconsequential to the wholesale reframing I’m suggesting that puts these clients into an entirely different space.
Syndicated copies:
It might be to do with the word Tweet in the app name
There are corporate (possibly blessed?) clients that do crosspost, but that’s inconsequential to the wholesale reframing I’m suggesting that puts these clients into an entirely different space.
boffosocko.com/2020/03/06/app…
It might be to do with the word Tweet in the app name