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Modern social networking sites are under enormous pressure to respond in a timely manner to bad content on the control platform. Recently, Twitter launched a series of new features in response to the U.S. election.But if it had been two or three years ago, Twitter would not have been able to change so easily, since there were a number of third-party clients that could not receive changes to these features at the same time.Now, social networks such as Twitter and domestic microblogging have blocked access to third-party clients, marking the end of a period of "centering" from the 2010s.Twitter's new feature ,available in bulkIn the run-up to the U.S. election, social networks have cracked down on hate speech and fake news on the platform. Of course, the way to fix it isn't just "simple and brutal" to delete a post seal, especially the "embroidery kung fu" that Twitter does.On October 9th Twitter officially announced a series of major changes in the way its platform operates in preparation for one of the most controversial, uncertain and potentially high-stakes elections in modern U.S. history.The first is a fundamental change in the "retweet" function. Officials will now direct users to add their own comments before retweeting, a change from Twitter's practice since joining the official retweeting feature , which can be retweeted unconditionally at the push of a button. (Interestingly, Sina Weibo has recently reversed its story, retweeting microblogs, which have traditionally been retweeted with comments, and can now be "turned quickly" without a message on their mobile phones.) )The second is the Read First, Turn Later feature.Twitter said it tested a tip that lets users take a little time to read the link to the article before forwarding the linked message.They say the move against the "headline party" article was a success.Users now have a 40% increased probability of opening an article before forwarding it, and some times they don't forward the entire article when they read it.The most common is to label posts that contain misleading information. Messages posted by politicians, government agencies, and the official news media in the United States and other countries are tagged.If U.S. politicians, candidates, and campaign accounts post misleading messages, the policy is more stringent: tweets are folded up and users must check the warning message before they can see the original text. Such tweets disable likes, official retweets, and replies.At the very least, such a policy is necessary for some of President Trump's messages. Recently, Trump tweeted that he was fully "immune" to neo-crown pneumonia; the CDC says there is no evidence that new crown patients will not get sick again when they recover. Twitter's warning label said the message "violates the rules governing the dissemination of misleading and potentially harmful information related to neo-pneumonia."You might wonder who would take such empty-mouthed presidential tweets seriously, but at the Democratic National Convention in September, a woman, Kristin Urquiza, lost her life when she accused Trump and Republican officials of making unseolly remarks that kept her father to death. Since May, the Republican governor of Arizona has lifted the home-segregation order, and she finds it difficult to persuade her father to stay at home. Her father contracted the disease in July and deteriorated rapidly, eventually dying.Twitter's approach is a compromise compared to the controls that other platforms use to delete posts directly, not only by making false statements "free speech" but also by alerting and alerting users as much as possible.If a Twitter user had traveled through time and space a year ago, he might have been surprised to find that many of his daily habits of using Twitter have changed dramatically.But Twitter's ability to make such drastic changes to its security and auditing systems has gone through a process. Without a crucial step, Twitter would not be able to make these changes."Bridge-across" for third-party clientsOn August 16, 2018, after years of anticipating and several delays, Twitter finally delivered on its promise to completely shut down the functional interfaces necessary for third-party Twitter clients to run. Specifically, third-party clients can no longer access the APIs required to push notifications and automatically refresh the timeline.At the time, while the vast majority of third-party clients on the market had long since disappeared, the remaining few, such as Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon and Tweetings, still had a large number of users. Twitter set a timetable in April 2018 with a target date of June 19 of that year, but was forced to postpone it for another two months because of a flood of opposition.Rob Johnson, Twitter's product director, acknowledges and thanks third-party apps for their contribution to creating today's Tweets. "Third-party customers have had a significant impact on Twitter services and the products we build."Independent of Twitter's official developers, it contributed the first Mac and iPhone native clients to Twitter, creating a range of popular product features, such as "mute" a user.One action that is clearly drawn from the user's "wild" usage habits is retweeting. On days when retweeting is not officially supported, users manually copy and paste the original text and add the word RT to the front to represent "retweet" with their comments attached at the top. So, looking at a tweet that's been rt many times needs to be looked upside down.After 2009, Twitter introduced the "one-click forwarding" feature mentioned above, which was retweeted without comments.It wasn't until April 2015 that Twitter released the "retweet with comments" feature, but it was optional and was not supported by many third-party clients.
And the most famous contribution made by independent developers, when the iOS client Tweetie invented an interactive means, is the famous "pull-down refresh." With this interaction, Tweetie won the 2009 Apple iOS App Store Design Award.In 2010, Twitter acquired the Tweetie app and directly replaced it with the then official client. Its founder and patent owner, Loren Brichter, became an engineer at Twitter. After officially owning the "pull-down refresh" patent in 2013, Twitter announced that it would make the interaction available to the entire Internet free of charge, and that the acquisition of the patent was only precautionary.A year later, Twitter acquired another critically acclaimed third-party client, this time to the highly used tweet Deck on the desktop side, which allows multiple Twitter accounts to be aggregated and displayed side-by-side on the same screen, and allows simultaneous posting of messages to multiple accounts, which is today's "group control." TweetDeck has been useless since it was acquired.Immediately after completing its "sharp" acquisition of the best clients, Twitter warned developers not to build apps that "mimic the core experience of Twitter." Since then, developers of third-party Twitter clients have been able to feel a marked shift in official attitudes.In mid-2011, Twitter abandoned third-party image and video hosting services in favor of storing pictures and videos on its servers. Because early Twitter was a small business, unable to afford the huge cost of image storage, it produced a variety of third-party libraries, better known as Twitpic, which was established in 2008. As for videos, youtube has always been used.But after Twitter's ability to set up its own map beds, there was incompatibility between third-party clients and official apps. Third-party apps can only be sent to Twitpic and can't read Twitter's own images; Twitter officials, in turn, have been re-shortened to a bunch of links that can only be seen by clicking on them.With less usage, Twitpic decided to close the station permanently in 2014. This means that many users' memories will cease to exist. At the critical moment, Twitter officials and Twitpic reached an agreement to acquire the domain name and photo library of its website, which is currently read-only.In 2012, Twitter made the biggest revision in the history of developer policy, limiting the maximum number of users allowed by third-party clients. This means that the user size of third-party clients is man-madely capped, and once exceeded, the entire service is paralysed. At this point, the third-party client has been sentenced to "suspended death".As Johnson puts it, "In the years following these announcements, we have repeatedly told developers that our API roadmap does not prioritize client use cases, even as we continue to maintain specific APIs that are heavily used by these clients and 'quietly' grant exceptions to customers who need them." "Since then, most of the newer Twitter features, including polling, bookmarking and live streaming service Periscope, have never authorized third-party app support because Twitter doesn't have an API at all.Twitter has never maintained the old APIs that underpin the operation of third-party clients, which have been in a "beta" state for more than nine years and are built on a technology stack that Twitter no longer supports. Over time, these APIs have only been used by less than 1% of third-party developers, and it is not realistic to invest in building a whole new service to replace them.Today, if you search #BreakingMyTwitter on Twitter for the hashtag, you can also see the historic sites where many third-party clients flocked to the roar of anger between April and August 2018. Ayfan said at the time, "Cross the river to tear down bridges to block third parties, because of the pressure of financial reporting or moral decline?" "In this regard, twitter's attitude is basically "ten move to reject." After all, it's not enough to see Twitter users contribute a lot of the best ideas in its history to the authorities; it's not enough to be inclusive of third parties, making the company's operating costs and code increasingly complex, and struggling to meet basic reporting goals.After 2018, Twitter's interface has been re-versioned and feature upgrades have accelerated significantly. At this point, twitter has had to speed up iterations to filter hate speech in response to criticism of the social responsibility of big tech companies, but it's also because it no longer has to worry about being compatible with third parties that it's making such a rapid escalation possible.All this is not taken for granted.In China, Sina Weibo, which targets Twitter, has gone through a similar route. Even four or five years ago, there were many different third-party clients on the market that could access Weibo. They all date back to around 2010, when Sina Weibo began to develop.At that time, Sina, NetEase, Tencent, Sohu all have their own microblogs, it is generally believed that micro-blogs will be the main battleground of the future social network. Tencent is also facing the problem of QQ products aging and not adapting to the mobile Internet. In the undefined time, each family generously opened up their APIs to third-party developers, so a variety of fan-built client products appeared on the PC and mobile phone ends.Google Chrome on the computer, there is a very famous plug-in, called "FaWave micro." It's very simple, you can log into your micro-blogging account registered on all platforms at home and abroad, as well as other accounts with 140-word short dynamic functions (such as pods), and then sync what you want to say at the moment to all of the above places in one breath.Anyone who came from that era ten years ago can now experience the great lethality of this network-wide synchronization function. At that time, the social public opinion environment and now very different, who did not say the last sentence or two now seems to see to be red-faced to avoid the words? It was nice to post at that time, now... Say more is tears.On the mobile side, another bright new star has been Weico, a third-party client created by web design firm EICO. Previously, EICO worked with Sina to design the official microblogging client, retaining a number of unsoponsed suggestions that were added to Weico.In the end, Weico, with more than 30 million users at its peak, became the most popular client brand on Sina Weibo's open platform, incubateing third-party clients with the highest microblogging traffic.Weibo's third-party clients were once in bloom, Android has Share Weibo client, Welike, See and so on, iOS has VVebo, Ink, Singo and so on.By mid-2016, Sina Weibo had 297 million monthly live people. The commercial nature of microblogging has also been strengthened during this period, with official clients' open-screen ads, interspersed targeted promotions, various junk marketing swipes, and confusing timelines that even open members can't avoid.At this time, third-party clients generally provide the ability to go to official advertising and provide a normal timeline, can be said to seriously interfere with the "profit model" of microblogging. One of the more users of the micro-blogging client "Ink guest", because the API interface was officially withdrawn by the micro-blogging, can not function properly. After a brief negotiation, Although Weibo allowed it to re-open the API call, but ink customers themselves development funds are not enough, crowdfunding also suffered failure, stopped the follow-up development.Weibo began to shut down the basic API permissions of third-party clients several times, citing security concerns caused by key leaks. Advanced interfaces such as topics and comments with pictures have long been unavailable, but at least third-party client users can continue to happily follow others and swipe microblogs.By July 3, 2017, the author confirmed that Sina had shut down the most basic interface of the microblogging platform, and that "third-party microblogging clients are dead."As for the most popular Weico client, it also stopped updating early and was replaced by the "Weibo International Edition", a client designed by EICO in collaboration with the official microblogging authorities.We can note that the subsequent rise of social networks such as WeChat, Fast Hands, Shakes, and other head applications such as The United States, Today's Headlines, and so on, never thought about opening up to third parties as a compatible client, even in the face of competitive pressure.Sina Weibo opened up so much before and after 2010 that it can be said that there are no comers. This is clearly influenced by Twitter across the ocean, as is the "master" of his own. Therefore, it set limits on third-party clients, but also with the "master" Twitter also followed the trend.In early 2011, Sina Weibo for the first time restricted API output, targeting the aforementioned micro-blogging, as well as the same type of micro-blogging, micro-blogging butler, mowriter, Bo Weibo, Andscape, wheat bean, hedonist, Massa and many other applications and plug-ins. What they have in common is that they can sync Sina Weibo messages to other microblogs.At that time, Sina and several other competition into the white heat, and Sina to protect their own microblogging content is not crawled to other people's platform, it is also a natural idea. A few years later, in the face of byte-beating crawls to "micro-headlines", Weibo sued directly, and history repeats itself."De-centralization" and its demiseTwitter's dazzled third-party clients, in fact, are not just for aesthetics, it can play a variety of unexpected roles.For example, there is a PHP-based web client, Dabr, that can be set up on any private server. That way, even if an attack on Twitter's primary domain name causes access failures and your own website is still accessible, you can use your server as a bridge to indirectly access the Twitter service.
Of course, either of them can no longer be used, it is a thing of the past.
All third-party clients have one thing in common: to improve what official clients call "disadvantages". Some of them are long-term accumulations, either due to a lack of official development power, or inconsistent with the general public understanding of the use of the same function, while others are deliberately used by the authorities, such as inserting advertisements and disrupting timelines.In fact, presenting messages in unsealed chronological order is already one of the most basic features of third-party clients, which is tantamount to eliminating the role of official recommendation algorithms and traffic allocation, and is becoming increasingly intolerable.Social networking can be said to be very pure and simple when there are not so many mules in the first place. Twitter has only a few core features - send messages, follow others, look at the square. And all messages are 140 English characters, the length of a text message.This simple approach made Twitter at the time less of a company's product and more of a universal protocol. How do you understand the Agreement? Simply put, anyone can make their own products and be compatible with each other as long as they adhere to uniform standards.Before Twitter, Microsoft's MSN Messenger, Google's Google Talk and Yu Wei's AIM, ICQ and others could all be open to protocol connectivity. As a result, Apple Mac's own chat tools, as well as third-party clients such as Trillian, can communicate with official users.
Earlier than them is the fully open chat room protocol IRC, it is not the so-called "official" developers, all the clients used by the third party launched. It is on the IRC platform that emojis and other online etiquette have been born. Airscom's article"WeChat "Take a Shot": A Story from 1971IRC's history is detailed.Another product that has to be mentioned at the same time is RSS, which is a protocol that is free to present site article updates. You can let people know what's going on on these sites without having to visit the home page one by one. For each site, you can choose three different ways to share, one is to share the full text, one is to share the middle of the partition of the summary, and is to share only the title.By the mid-2010s, more and more sites were retaining only titles or summaries, even if they still retained RSS output. Generous sharing of full text affects users' access to their sites, which in turn affects advertising revenue. Since then, RSS and mailing lists, the active way of getting news, have increasingly given in to social media, a passive way of receiving pushes without brains.Like early tweets, RSS, etc., sharing the services developed by their companies as an open agreement and sharing them with third parties to build and use them is to follow the "Web 2.0" spirit that began to emerge around 2003, a spirit of openness, sharing, and engaging everyone.What both China and the United States are doing now is moving towards the opposite of this spirit, with big companies busy running around doing their own so-called "open platforms" aimed at keeping developers from flowing freely to their rivals.In China, WeChat public number and other "XX" are trying to find a way to keep people to their own acres of three points, while increasing the algorithm push and insert advertising efforts. Recently, the agency's "author's description", which has been in the headlines for more than two years, was asked to be revised because they finally noticed that the description was reported to the agency's WeChat public number, which is considered a "diversion". When platforms are small enough not to pose a threat, they don't care.In the early years, Internet services were for fear that no one would use them, but now they are going the other way because of oversusing, competition and preventing "abuse". Therefore, this "open" interpretation of the right to belong to the manufacturers, if withdrawn, it is also in line with the terms of service, the user of course has nothing to say.If manufacturers generally agree that the benefits of centralization far outweigh the benefits of centering, then in turn, the continued centralization of the past is bringing more and more trouble. In recent years, when technology companies have been required to fulfill their social responsibilities, the contradictions have become more prominent.There is currently a Chinese literary creation site that uses IPS technology to preserve the articles created above. But after two or three years of operation, the site found that the so-called "centered" preservation of articles is only a technology that is not perceived by users at all, most people are still concentrated in the site's fixed URL. This is because the comment area of the article can not be stored with the same technology, and the interactive atmosphere between the author and the reader is built on the discussion on the official website.Therefore, we can not say that the demise of "de-centralization" is the "Chinese characteristics" after the practice of microblogging and so on, but the global Internet companies make the same choice.If the Internet had been reinvented, it would never have been the way it is today. Don't say socializing and chatting, even if it's a browser, you can be made into incompatible forms. It's like what you can access with 360 and QQ browsers, it can be different.In the 1990s, AOL (AOL), Bohaiwei, and so on, can only access the content already in their own station. At that time, these closed services gave way to a unified standard of WWW (Internet), mainly because there are too few users to contribute to a wide variety of content, resulting in a scale effect. Now, an app has hundreds of millions to billions of users, and it's hard to say whether they have to be open.Today's internet infrastructure is largely set up by pioneers with the dream of the world's greatest openness, which is gradually being destroyed by the present. The spirit of selfless and mutually beneficial openness of the past will only cause more and more nostalgia for later people.https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/09/twitter-retweet-changes-quote-tweet-election-misinformation/https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/twitter-read-before-retweet/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/daughter-trump-supporter-who-died-covid-rips-president-s-pandemic-n1239777https://www.ifanr.com/1086390https://sspai.com/post/40482https://www.landiannews.com/archives/37064.html👉 related articles of the China Airlines News Agency🈸 Reprint this article / business cooperation please consult
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