{"id":7443,"date":"2018-05-21T13:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T14:00:36","slug":"screwing-your-vocal-minority-500ish-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/05\/21\/screwing-your-vocal-minority-500ish-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwing Your Vocal Minority \u2013 500ish Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2042,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/screwing-your-vocal-minority-dd4deb72448d&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200304185149\\\/https:\\\/\\\/500ish.com\\\/screwing-your-vocal-minority-dd4deb72448d&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 22:40:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-14 01:26:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 23:31:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 21:54:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 08:15:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 17:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/screwing-your-vocal-minority-dd4deb72448d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screwing Your Vocal Minority \u2013 500ish Words<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>All of this is to say, it\u2019s fucking insane that Twitter has killed their native Mac client not once, but twice. I don\u2019t care if it only had a hundred thousand users, a thousand users, or a hundred users, it\u2019s the abandonment of those users that\u2019s insane for the reasons listed above. Yes, every company needs focus and even the biggest companies need to allocate resources in appropriate ways. Again, what I\u2019d argue is that this is an appropriate way. Maybe the most appropriate way, in many ways, data be damned.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And so if the above is fucking insane, making the above decision and then making the decision to severely neuter the third-party apps that were filling in the holes you dug is absolutely mega ultra batshit fucking insane. The fact that so many third-parties were filling these holes should say enough\u200a\u2014\u200athey\u2019re not just doing this for fun, they\u2019re doing it because there are holes to be filled. What Twitter is saying, explicably\u200a\u2014\u200ayet inexplicably from the 10,000 foot view\u200a\u2014\u200ais that they like holes. They really, really just enjoy having holes in their product. And if you\u2019re a user who doesn\u2019t like to use products with holes? Well, you can use\u200a\u2014\u200anope, actually, you can\u2019t.\u2075 And also, if you happen to be amongst our most loyal and passionate users, fuck you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is odd commentary though from a VC. I\u2019m guessing MG is wearing his Twitter user hat in this post but he himself completely understands what Twitter is doing. He himself has probably sat at board meetings or consulting meetings and uttered \u201cdon\u2019t cater to the vocal minority.\u201d Progress requires you ignore the power users who will never be happy, block your ads anyway and use 3rd party applications you have no control over. Twitter is just copying the Facebook model. 80% of your users are mobile and those that aren\u2019t use your website where all of the features are present without waiting on a 3rd party to integrate them or for your mobile team to build that new feature that was on the desktop first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twitter doesn\u2019t care about 200K Mac users on your 1st party application or an additional 150K using a dozen or so Macintosh Twitter clients. It\u2019s a drop in the bucket. This is progress for Twitter. This is the future. They\u2019re looking at Facebook wondering why they\u2019re spending so much time supporting 3rd party clients and the Mac when Mobile and Web are the majority of their customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deep down though, I hope the vocal minority moves on to a new network. Pownce and Jaiku failed but that doesn\u2019t mean the next one doesn\u2019t have to. We almost had it with Micro.Blog and App.Net. Maybe we can finally get it right this time?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screwing Your Vocal Minority \u2013 500ish Words: All of this is to say, it\u2019s fucking insane that Twitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-21T14:00:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"9bf14adf-e413-4025-ab14-7a1973660267","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-21T14:00:44Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Am_FK3-QTQCWrFHoZc2YCZw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1W3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6968,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/linked-the-whale\/","url_meta":{"origin":7443,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Whale&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via 500Ish (a Medium Blog): Most of the time, when you hear about a company the size of Amazon moving into a new space, eyes roll but heads don\u2019t. 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