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What we built with Twitter that now won't fly

office.sharingstate.com

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Twitter (and to a degree facebook) feels more and more like "just someone I can authenticate with" and less a platform.

Sorry: server is suffering. Email us (team@sharingstate.com) if you're interested and we'll send along an invite.

Is that really incompatible with the Twitter display rules? The only things I can see on the News page that don't comply is not displaying the user's avatar and not displaying reply, retweet, etc., links. It seems like both of those could be added without cluttering the design too much.

Twitter's desire to micromanage how API users display content seems pretty stupid to me, but I'm not sure it will have the terrible effect on clients that people seem to think (the rules about not including third-party actions and not intermingling Twitter and non-Twitter content, however, are pretty obnoxious).

Yeah, we'll do what we can to comply. If you're signed up and have your Twitter account connected you do get the reply/retweet functionality on hover. We like the calm of having no avatars, but we could add them (and see if we get busted if we let users toggle them).

The part that is tough for us is third party actions. It's specifically those actions we're excited to enable. So while we don't anticipate having to totally remove Twitter data, we do expect it to become less useful and integrated.

It's unclear how draconian Twitter wants to be. We'll do our best to work with them while refining and adding other services as a hedge against getting cut out.

Good Stuff! From the demo, it looks more like a 'deck' to me. Is there going to be a handle for each user where other users can visit to look at? (That means always public?) How are the sharing relationships defined?

You can make specific workspaces public and follow other people's workspaces, but everything is private by default.

We like the idea that sharing happens around a specific set of content and we'd like to develop the collaboration potential further. As that happens the sharing relationships should hopefully go beyond 'following' or 'followed by'.

Pretty sweet stuff. How are you planning to monetize this? Also, how do those other API's your using stack up against each other?

We'd like to build something that people find indispensable enough to pay for. How exactly that works: we're still thinking about it.

Not sure exactly what you mean by 'stack up', but they're all fairly comparable. Some are easier than others. We built a lightweight meta-API to deal with them all uniformly.

Why does the caption under the baby tiger in in your demo read "Say what Nigga"? Was that supposed to be funny?

The demo pulls real data. Sorry for the offensive content! We felt it was better to give in to the unpredictability of the live feeds.

I see. Yes Twitter can be unpredictable at times... At first glance I thought that were canned images and text; didn't realize they were just random people on Twitter.

I think that's someone's live tweet.

Very clean and simple. Nice. Signed up.

I like how sunrise returned some guidos at a club.

Serious note: Looks very interesting.

Super cool stuff.

Good stuff

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