[jameszol]

I like Twitter. I don't mind the ads. And Twitter is close to letting us download our own archived tweets: http://searchengineland.com/twitter-tweet-archive-tool-comin...

If ads interrupted my experience, then maybe it would become a pain point worth addressing or paying for. Until then, I'll stick with the free, ad-supported Twitter.

[MatthewPhillips]

Ads are not the problem, the problem is the implications of being ad-supported. How it affects policy and decision-making.

[jameszol]

Is that implication really a problem though? I suppose for some it is. That audience is likely quite small, depending on the service of course.

[jonmwords]

I don't know. Twitter said they were going to launch annotations in the API, too, and that never materialized.

[jameszol]

Delivery is always up in the air isn't it?

One argument for app.net appeared to be "controlling my own data" so I thought I would point people toward what Twitter has said about giving users the ability to download all of their tweets soon.

I hope they deliver but I'm not too worried about it if they don't. I currently archive my tweets using IFTTT: Delicious.com for the ones with links (http://ifttt.com/recipes/332), Dropbox for the whole stream (http://ifttt.com/recipes/37991).

[brennannovak]

What bothers me the most about Twitter is how, with a few sharp blows, they've destroyed the 3rd party client / app market which was perhaps the most amazing aspect of Twitter and it's surrounding culture when I first started using it in 2008

[jameszol]

I agree. The way they are managing the 3rd party market is baffling and disappointing.