In this episode:
- Neal and Seth introduce the latest Social Media Addict, Jody Raines of WebMarCom.
- Interview: Loic LeMeur, the mastermind behind the amazing Seesmic brand of Social Media apps (Be sure to listen to the whole podcast. Loic lets slip some BIG news about new features! Remember, you heard it here first!).
Enjoy!
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thanks again for having me
Here is the (old) Seesmic logo:
http://api.ning.com/files/cmz-Kp*lYg-EEspFjOB1f…
Wao good post
I would like to see tumbr post its would be such a good fact that we sooon see it on Deck
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HI Richard, I am 100% with what Neal lists and I think you guys are doing a great job there.
Sure, it’s a small team, but it’s a great product. Look forward to all those rollouts. The sooner the better for all of us..specially everything and anything about columns and as Darren said, ’scheduling’ is a pain to sign in and sign out. See what you can do.
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I’d like to see it integrate with Ping.fm so I can stop switching in between 3 different programs to do everything I need to accomplish.
I also think if they implemented some of the tabs features that Seesmic for Windows uses it would greatly improve the readibility. It would also lesson the number of columns you have open in one screen.
For right now I switch between Hootsuite, TweetDeck and Seesmic for Windows constantly! Whew! It makes me tired just typing all those!
Blessings,
Wendy
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And the ability to schedule tweets!
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Can you say MySpace..lol
I agree that Twitter may shoot themselves in the foot in the long run.
Starting as way to communicate and now turning into a marketing, business mode may piss off a lot of users.
My biggest issue is with how big they are, they spend more time on new features, new home screen new design coming.. why not take that energy into making Twitter work, work each day all day..lol
Facebook doesn’t crash, Myspace doesn’t crash, Tumblr doesn’t crash etc…
So before monetizing the shit out of twitter and making it look pretty, why not fix the backend stuff so ‘it works”
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Twitter is a service people have been using for free forever. People still don’t have to pay for it and probably never will. Least they can do is stop complaining like spoiled little children when Twitter starts wisening up on how to survive in a world where cash talks.
People have been talking about Twitter’s lack of a business model for some time. Now they’re trying to get one and people think it is the end of the world.
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Thanks for your comment, but I think you missed the point; certainly Twitter needs to make money, but I’m questioning if whether the way they’re going about it is going to harm the company. Obviously, I think they’re placing themselves at considerable risk.
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I guess we’ll see how it works out, but I still disagree at this point.
For one, almost any move or enhancement Twitter could possibly make would step on some developer’s toes because 3rd-party devs have pretty much created solutions for everything you can possibly think of. If Twitter comes in and sees an advantage to having something directly integrated into them to enhance the service and the brand, I think they should do it.
Secondly, it’d be hard not to state the obvious and that is that any developer who staked their business model on Twitter really made their own bed here. You observed this in your post and correctly so. It wasn’t smart planning. It was only a matter of time before Twitter made some moves like this. Honestly, I don’t think Twitter is going to suffer because of that as much as the devs do, and even that is still up for debate.
Thirdly, all the solutions out there will continue to work. People still have a choice, for instance, on which Twitter client they want to use. Tweetdeck isn’t going anywhere. It is kind of like Microsoft integrating anti-virus into Windows. Its nice for them to say they have an in-brand solution, but it sure isn’t hurting the third party companies much. Twitter is like the OS, and as long as they have that API, I think there will be a thriving library of third-party development going on.
I think these changes just sent a much-needed shockwave through the dev community to get back into the real-world. And, personally, I don’t think this is going to hurt Twitter at all.
We’ll see, though.
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David great points.. as far as Twitter making money.. I’m all for it,, shit I make money with Twitter and so does a lot of people. it’s only right Twitter makes money to.
My gripe is yes it is free, but so is facebook and tumblr, and 100 other social sites and then dont crash alll the time,,lol
Before you focus on making money and the cosmetic tweaks why not work on the back end first, get it stabilized and working, then move to money and pretty design.
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Why is it that whenever somebody wants to make money on their product (especially one they have worked on for years) all the people come rushing out to say “shame on you”.
Who are we to tell Twitter (arguably the best social media site ever) how to make money? And the notion that some other site is going to come in and take over is nonsense too, how many times has it been tried now?
Here is a question? Would you pay to use Social Media is all the popular ones required it? I would.
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Blizzard, with its 20 million World of Warcraft players, does this very thing over and over. They allow developers access to an API so third-party add-ons can be created for the game. Once an add-on becomes popular, Blizzard builds it into the game themselves. Further, they do not allow any third-party developers the ability to make any money whatsoever from the add-ons. Yet, developers keep developing as, what has already been stated, a freelance R&D department.
Most players still use the third-party add-ons instead of Blizzard’s own because they’re just better and updated more often. Loyalty to players (i.e.: users) who develop add-ons better than Blizzard is very strong despite Blizzard’s efforts to profit from developers’ ideas.
Bottom line: I don’t think Twitter can or will build better apps than the thousands and thousands of developers out there. What they may do, however, is limit their ability to access the API or make any money from doing so. That would suck for the devs, but I don’t think it will stop them from developing.
My $0.02
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Every free social network has some kind of downside. Facebook may be free and not crash as often, but their recent update left a lot of privacy vulnerabilities and just plain annoyances that are not fixable (like not having control of what gets posted to your wall – only being able to control who sees it).
And as much as it sucks for the developers who have built so much around Twitter, it could come down to not putting all of your eggs in one basket. Unless the developer is able to copyright their software and its functionality, then anyone, including Twitter, is free to make something comparable. Plus, at least if Twitter itself makes certain apps, it will be easier to trust than new apps by developers that you never know what they are doing with your credentials once they have them, no matter what they assure.
The problem with stabilizing the old design vs. coming out with something new is that maybe the new platform is being designed to be more stable. Why spend a ton of time stabilizing an old platform when it might take just as much time to design and stabilize a new one.
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Thanks for a well thought out post, Neal.
I think Twitter are currently taking a few very risky steps, as they seek a worthwhile business model. I hope they make money and as David said earlier, I think they will.
Not sure I would want to be a Twitter app developer right now though. Let’s see – It’s going to be interesting, that’s for sure!
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Yes stabalizing a new design is fine,, but the new design isn’t here yet and the site crashes almost daily for over a year.
That’s ridiculous. Yes facebook has made huge mistakes.. but it runs lol
We still don’t truly know what Twitter does with all the info, we do know they sell some of it.. so how safe is that?
I luv Twitter and I’m glad they are finally making money with it.
So more power to them.. It has been the biggest SM benefit to my business. I use it daily and I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon.
I hope they make a billion dollars and use it to stabilize and add features to take it to the next level.
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Thanks for the post. I was wondering for the longest time why Twitter thought it would be fine competing with its developers when they should embrace them and treat them as open source software does. More revenue that way.
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Attention Twitter Developers! Build any good application for Twitter and you may have it copied by Twitter and receive no compensation. Oh, sorry – there I go stating the obvious again.
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@Dave Attn “All” developers: Build a great application, it may be copied and you will get no compensation! Oops, I just stated the obvious!
It happens all the time! People have been making money off twitter (including developers) for several years!
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