Comments on: Vine launches, Twitter and Facebook clash over access, users lose

By: Jeremy Wilson

Jeremy Wilson — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:16:00 +0000

I think Keek does a better job of doing actual social video. Vine is just gifboom jazzed up a bit.

By: SedanChair

SedanChair — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:54:00 +0000

but proprietary

For developers, this should be the etiquette equivalent of taking a fat shit in the middle of a ballroom.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 03:02:00 +0000

If Facebook allowed animooted gifs it’d be like 4Chan for “adults”….

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:54:00 +0000

Yeah, Chrome didn’t behave that way, I had no idea. When I loaded the Boing Boing front door on iOS, bam, it took over and autoplayed forever. Screw that! I removed it from the post. Bad bad bad.

By: mrgoldenbrown

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:53:00 +0000

It would be great if Twitter reversed their policy of hating on third party clients. I’m sure someone out there would love to give you a filter that gets rid of facebooky posts, but they’re afraid to violate Twitter’s new rules. Alternatively, you could unfollow the people that post stuff you don’t like :)

By: mrgoldenbrown

mrgoldenbrown — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:50:00 +0000

Twitter explicitly discourages third party Twitter clients, and puts some serious restrictions on how much the existing ones can innovate. They might see something like what you propose as too much, and turn off your access. Read about their API terms here: https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms

By: franko

franko — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:19:00 +0000

hear hear.

By: Heartfruit

Heartfruit — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:03:00 +0000

clicking on it seems to do the trick

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:28:00 +0000

What’s stopping someone from creating simple animated-gif visualizers in regular Twitter clients, so that if someone links to some cute cat gif it will display them under the message, just like the Vine thing above is doing?

What’s stopping all the Twitter clients, together, from doing that?

Is it just that they wouldn’t display in in the official Twitter.com feed, so if viewing from there you’d have to click on the link?

By: MrBrownThumb

MrBrownThumb — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:28:00 +0000

I’m #TeamTwitter all the way. I’m so sick of going on Twitter and reading snippets of Facebook statuses, or links to photo galleries on Facebook. If I want to read what someone posted on Facebook, I’ll go to Facebook. Twitter needs to do something to stem this tide, or else it will just be a place where Facebook users just dump links to Facebook and Instagram.

Keep Twitter Twitter.

By: cbpxy

cbpxy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:12:00 +0000

And how do I stop that 6-second clip on the web page from playing over and over and over and over and over? With gifs, a quick tap on the escape key would give my distracted eyes a rest. With this?