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Mathew Ingram
Personal blog · mathewingram.com/workculturebusiness
Mathew Ingram's personal blog at mathewingram.com covers culture and business. Since 2007, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mathew Ingram's commentary on Twitter, including his 2015 post on the company's multi-billion-dollar mistake, which commenters cite as a summary of Twitter's closed developer ecosystem.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called "a good summary" of Twitter's shift away from third-party developers, and "a good follow-up" to an earlier piece.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a post in response to Costolo stepping down. Since the trendy thing is to post punditry about Twitter, I couldn't help but chime in. "On Twitter" - http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/ ---------- Also, you can make up your own mind about this: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-faceboo... http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2... https://medium.com/@michaeledward…
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down”Submitted Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago as a story · 97 points
HN discussionI've definitely seen clips of heavy artillery tucked away into friendly barns and garden sheds. Maybe there's just wealthy people who like to collect large guns and there's some pride in turning away a Nazi invasion with their defenses. Here's a cute video I found discussing the line of 12 fortresses protecting a little bottleneck of a river valley - he explains that the two camouflaged as villas are done so as not…
Comment linking /work/2022/02/14/switzerlands-hidden-artillery-placements-and-bunkers/
on “Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free”Submitted Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors as a story · 20 points
HN discussionTo my knowledge you can't run your own self-contained Bluesky server/network that doesn't go through (or at least partially rely on) services owned/operated by the Bluesky corporation. > A world of full self-hosting is not possible with Bluesky. In fact, it is worse than the storage requirements, because the message delivery requirements become quadratic at the scale of full decentralization: to send a message to on…
Comment linking /work/2024/11/28/is-bluesky-really-decentralized-its-complicated/
on “Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again”Submitted "If the news is that important, it will find me" as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSergey and Larry were famous in the valley for supposedly being clueless about how business worked. http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/12/04/let-me-cut-you-w... I also know a guy that Sergey tried to recruit in the early years. Imagine if you saw this logo: http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-com-history/1998.jpg ..on a business card printed out from a laser printer on ordinary office paper . The guy pushing this…
Comment linking /work/2006/12/04/let-me-cut-you-wacky-kids-a-check/
on “Why There Aren't More Googles”Submitted Mathew Ingram: My verdict on Disqus: Two thumbs up as a story · 13 points
HN discussion> they need to be pumping out lots of little experimental tools for finding, consuming and creating tweets This existed as a thriving third-party ecosystem, before Twitter dismantled it, http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... "Last year, Twitter effectively admitted that it needed third-party developers ... For anyone who had worked with Twitter in the past, however, this was a little bit li…
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come)”Submitted Ignore the Web? Good luck with that as a story · 11 points
HN discussion"The killer use of this, IMHO, would be the ability to integrate your technology into an already existing block of text hosted elsewhere just by dropping a line of js into the page" I double vote for this approach, for selfish reasons (i.e. I might be a customer one day). The reasons are clear: Getting to end users directly is expensive. It would be 'easier' to sell Revizr to vertical applications as a plugin and le…
Comment linking /work/2008/02/19/scribd-cool-feature-or-actual-business/
on “Review my startup: Revizr. You haven't seen this before.”Submitted Virtual newspaper has 6.7 million readers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionShould be here: http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b...
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago”Submitted An iTunes for news? Dumb, dumb, dumb as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPayment due? http://www.mathewingram.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
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on “Twitter’s multibillion-dollar mistake happened five years ago”Submitted Someone please buy AP a clue as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have decided to make a small list of posts out that talk about Twitter in recent times. Some are more cogent and authoritative than others. - http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... - http://john.do/twitter-quit/ - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma - https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/ - http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...…
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Twitter Needs New Leadership”Submitted Techmeme vs. Hacker News as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is a good summary: http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... and the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9470312 TL;DR: Twitter was an open ecosystem with lots of partners and a thriving developer environment. They chose to stop all of that, end their developer relations, and ensure that Twitter Inc was the only way that anyone could Twitter. Now, that closed-off-ecosystem…
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Keurig CEO Blames Coffee Pod DRM for Falling Sales”Submitted Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed? (2008) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have decided to make a small list of posts out that talk about Twitter in recent times. Some are more cogent and authoritative than others. - http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b... - http://john.do/twitter-quit/ - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma - https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/ - http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...…
Comment linking /work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-billion-dollar-mistake-happened-five-years-ago/
on “Twitter and What Might Have Been”Submitted Steve Jobs and the licence plate mystery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA good follow-up at http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/03/cnet-to-buy-tech...
Comment linking /work/2007/10/03/cnet-to-buy-techcrunch-why-not/
on “TechCrunch And Huffington: Who Will Buy The Big Blogs?”Submitted Newspapers Dying - News Thriving as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the Web half full or half empty? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Apple might be better off without Steve as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Newspapers: Evolution or catastrophe? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments more like slander than libel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let a hundred Facebooks bloom as a story · 2 points
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Submitted Hey, Steve -- you broke the Internet as a story · 2 points
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