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Accidental Tech Podcast

291: John’s Special Day

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I got to tell you, it was slightly refreshing, not having to keep up with Twitter and the

0:05.5

in the live stream, but man, screw Twitter.

0:08.9

Yeah, can we talk about that for a second?

0:10.5

Like, we've always had so much fun using Twitter, basically like, you know, live tweeting

0:16.2

the event and seeing everyone's reactions and retweeting all the funny stuff and getting all

0:20.3

these, like, great comments from people and tweeting out with little quips like, you know, in real

0:24.2

time at what's happening in the event. And, you know, Twitter, I mean, Twitter is becoming a lot

0:29.0

less of a fun place for lots of reasons. But one of them that's more recent is the, you know,

0:36.3

when they took away the streaming API from third party

0:38.3

clients a couple of months ago now I think it just sucks now like you know you can still do it

0:44.2

so you can either use Twitter's official apps which are terrible especially on the Mac where there's

0:48.0

really not no good option um by the way I know there's some like you know web view wrappers and

0:52.6

stuff that wrap the Twitter website those suck too um sorry to, to the people who work those, but just Twitter's website sucks.

0:58.2

So, you know, you're working with crap there. So, you know, Twitter can still live tweet stuff on Twitter, but you have to like go keep hitting refresh on the timeline, like, you know, scrolling to the top and refreshing

1:15.2

it and waiting and then seeing tweets porn and big chunks. Instead of like, you used to be able to

1:19.7

just watch it kind of flow down as people are tweeting and everything. And so it just is way more

1:24.1

cumbersome now. It just kind of makes, it makes it a lot less fun,

1:27.6

and it just adds to the overall problem of just Twitter in general being a lot less fun

1:32.6

these days. And I also noticed, like, there was a lot less traffic, like a lot fewer people

1:37.3

were live tweeting it this year or making comments about it. It just seemed kind of like a ghost town.

1:42.9

And like about, I don't know, about halfway

1:44.9

through. I just kind of, I kind of just gave up too. Like, I just kind of stopped. It just wasn't

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