Long-term thoughts about Twitter
Whenever a website goes down or something universal happens that I want to investigate, I go to the Twitter home page. But 99% of my time is spent in TweetDeck, paying attention only to the handful of people I actively follow. It’s listening vs. engaging, I guess, and Twitter is vertically integrated on one, and pipes only for the other.
Opening the API really fractured the product in the most incredible way. Effectively all of my contact with Twitter flows through the API, not the site. I can’t think of another site I can say that for. Twitter’s value to me is its pipes, TweetDeck’s is its interface design. It’s like a water utility vs. Kohler.
It’s funny, the more I think about Twitter, the more I think of it as infrastructure.
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