{"id":130521,"date":"2016-04-29T20:11:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T02:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/we-lost-a-major-social-media-app-today.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:33:07","slug":"we-lost-a-major-social-media-app-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/we-lost-a-major-social-media-app-today.html","title":{"rendered":"We lost a major social media app today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But, apparently, gained a major <i>news<\/i> app, as Twitter changes its category in the iOS App Store from &quot;social&quot; to &quot;news.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s an interesting move (and a demonstration of why only allowing a single category is unlikely to work well with complex Real World stuff). Twitter&#39;s growth has been flat, and what most people talk about Twitter being useful for is the instant-live transmission of news (in little 140-byte chunks). By emphasizing that, making Twitter an information channel vs a chatting channel, it could successfully give them a boost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/twitter-gets-anti-social-in-the-app-store-bills-itself-as-news\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/67psdRUFITcFNGaT-qetCfQmHvR1s6BAVEHcuSN4Z3wQmQpr-O7W8FNnwGfbQOTuDkbGWnL9FN9leNit3auCDeFzpRmdzATjHb_0YFzucdSXq-QW_XBdUmdHwBAhidL00xcK7lh9J11DiXSJkudLf_LvB0SebJW9NlLd7L77gVj6TKBJdPTxBsf_m27PleOwTkp5AqJ-vqtF-hPgg0iHlCHyZYIdYMOJuAvTdxg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/twitter-gets-anti-social-in-the-app-store-bills-itself-as-news\/'>Twitter gets anti-&#8216;Social&#8217; in the App Store, bills itself as &#8216;News&#8217; &#8211; CNET<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n\u200bBBC, CNN, The New York Times, Twitter &#8212; the social media service is quietly downplaying its &#8220;social networking&#8221; role and positioning itself as a &#8220;news&#8221; app on the App Store.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/dXSYL92fcpJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, apparently, gained a major news app, as Twitter changes its category in the iOS App Store from &quot;social&quot; to &quot;news.&quot; It&#39;s an interesting move (and a demonstration of why only allowing a single category is unlikely to work well with complex Real World stuff). Twitter&#39;s growth has been flat, and what most people talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/we-lost-a-major-social-media-app-today.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We lost a major social media app today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132042,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/google-makes-some-major-photo-moves.html","url_meta":{"origin":130521,"position":0},"title":"Google makes some major photo moves","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-16 11:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I mistrust Google a bit as the home of all things photographic (looking at what they did with Picasa and with Google+ photos), these two news items sound incredible cool:1. 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