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grizzles on March 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter shut down Emojitracker's access

Why do people keep building stuff on Twitter? All the app developers that have been fenced off should create a simple protocol to make Twitter irrelevent. Brent Simmons suggested a great way do it awhile back: http://inessential.com/2012/06/29/matthew_on_twitter_restric...

pmlnr on March 17, 2016 [–]

Why do people keep building stuff on any silo?

Take a look at Known (https://withknown.com/) and Woodwind (https://woodwind.xyz/): one to have an actual website, the second to have a stream of content you want. Done.

Forget silos.

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