{"id":5700,"date":"2012-08-14T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:01:28","slug":"app-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/app-net\/","title":{"rendered":"App.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/08\/app-dot-not\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/08\/app-dot-not\/\"><p>I guess the real question is whether those who&rsquo;ve signed up for app.net are actually prepared to leave Twitter for it. So far, it looks like most of them are still tweeting, and I&rsquo;m curious as to how many of them <em>can<\/em> leave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I get why people are looking for a Twitter alternative, but using Twitter <em>plus<\/em> another service doesn&rsquo;t seem to be a very good solution. And the robotweeting and having to pay to reserve your username leave a bad taste.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alexhillman.com\/the-money-is-a-red-herring\">Alex Hillman<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/alexhillman.com\/the-money-is-a-red-herring\"><p>App.net is a fascinatingly similar Rorschach test on the community surrounding it. It&rsquo;s a mirror, it reflects back to them what they want and care about. And people are spending $50, $100, &amp; $1000 at a time based on what they believe the creator intends to do. Dalton has stated his intentions, to a point, but most of the 3rd party discussion has turned to speculation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2012\/08\/14\/everythingsAnInkblot.html\">Dave Winer<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2012\/08\/14\/everythingsAnInkblot.html\"><p>What seems very unlikely to me is that the new thing will fall neatly in place on one company&rsquo;s servers, or even with one company&rsquo;s servers at the center. It&rsquo;s never been that way.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: I guess the real question is whether those who&rsquo;ve signed up for app.net are actually prepared to leave Twitter for it. So far, it looks like most of them are still tweeting, and I&rsquo;m curious as to how many of them can leave. I get why people are looking for a Twitter alternative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14722,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/14722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}