Twitter bots
Yesterday I posted a tweet with 5 comments. Around 10 min later, 5 likes, 1 per comment. All comments done by different “Cora” (with 5 to 20 followers each one) Is is common for you guys?
Twitter, recommendation engine approach
Twitter, as any social media environment has a mechanism to decide what content recommends you. Right now, if you are using Twitter and are under “For you” tab, the content shown is recommended by an engine. In the original map I have from Twitter this capability is shown here: The recommendation code will be opened … Read more
Twitter shop
Today I realized you can shop in Twitter: There are 2 main time lines right now in Twitter: The shop is offered when you look for something and there are products offered. Let’s see how these products are shown in other sides of Twitter. More than probably the shopping options will be offered in the … Read more
Twitter’s API restricted
Other move of Twitter related to content & access restriction: the APIs. Popular 3rd party Twitter clients (i.e.: Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Echofon…) stopped working on January 12 Many questions around this move Popular third-party Twitter clients such as Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Echofon, AltTextUtil and AltTxtReminder stopped working at around 11 PM ET on Thursday, January 12. Updated Wardley map The different … Read more
New Twitter functionality: “for you”
During these days, the header of twitter’s users have a new space where they can see something like this: By default: “For you” that is a mixture of your followers content plus recommendations done by Twitter. On the right “following” that by the moment, it seems to contain the timeline that Twitter users are used … Read more
Twitter and the common problem of the 30%
In October 2020 I wrote about the payment war in the mobile app ecosystem, where basically a set of companies were fighting against the 2 giants (Apple and Google) about the payments to be done for every payments done from applications managed by their store. Now in 2022, Twitter creates a “check” with an initial … Read more
Virtual mapping conversation about Twitter
John Grant challenge the Wardley Map community to use an architecture diagram shared by E. Musk. The challenge was to Map Twitter’s architecture diagram from different perspectives. To me this is the second time I stop to think about this. In April, when rumors about the Twitter acquisition were spreading through the news, I did … Read more
Twitter as public and private company
An agreement to acquire Twitter has been reached, and there are so many comments about the final purpose Elon Musk has about this acquisition. I would try to draw a map with the main business model characteristics related to Twitter as public company and now as private company. The model drawn is very basic, and … Read more
Open-source Twitter Intelligence
I continue being curious about OSINT, and I found this project named Open-source Twitter Intelligence in GIT Hub . It’s a set of code that do scraping on Twitter without using Twitter’s API, allowing you to scrape a user’s followers, following, Tweets and more. Apparently Twitter’s API has some limits and this approach avoid them. It’s written in … Read more
Twitter Vs Facebook
Twitter just announced that they are removing the 140 characters for direct messages. To me as user this means they become a clone of Facebook. Which of the main things you do in Facebook cannot be done in Twitter? Facebook did a move adding the possibility of replying to replies, so the replies are more … Read more