You've got one of the use cases down: me telling my users about new features. But keep in mind, if I send them a compelling tweet about a new feature, then THEY are likely to REtweet, and the viral fun begins. Lots more people hear about my app.
The other use case was me letting them tweet easily (using their twitter or FB account) from within my app. Imagine me offering them an option that says: "Hey if you like this feature, how about tweeting it to your friends? Y/N" If lots of people click yes, then a pre-canned tweet goes out to their subscribed followers. Now I've got 5000 people tweeting about my app to all of the users that follow THEM. Some of this we can already do using the SHARE intent that comes with Android, but as I point out in the blog posting, I think we need more than just that... It will be an interesting balance to strike to make this not annoying to my users, but the potential power is huge for app promotion in my mind. On Jan 18, 11:35 pm, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok..read your blog. I personally still don't get the craze over twitter. I > enjoy blogging.. when I have something to share..but as I have nobody that > reads my blog, I don't really blog any more. I can't stand trying to type on > my phone device. The virtual keyboard on the Moto Droid is pretty good..but > I still mis-type all the time, and the pull out keyboard is worse for my big > hands/fingers. The idea of writing a short message about me eating at a > McDonalds, or that I just saw a car crash, or where I am driving by, etc.. I > don't know. It doesn't click with me. About the only thing that does seem to > make sense with twitter for me is posting links to say, good blogs or > technology/info stuff to share with followers. Now that twitter posts > directly to your FB account and many others, I suppose that's one way of > sharing a random link that you think others would enjoy, quickly. > > I do however like the idea you are proposing.. tweeting about an update and > anyone that uses your app getting that tweet is handy. But doesn't the > update mechanism of droid already do this? I get status updates all that > time for apps to update. I don't know that a tweet would do anything > more/better than what I get now. About the only reason I could see it being > better is if info about whats in the new update were provided with the > tweet. Many updates, when you go to the market, dont say anything at all, so > you're not sure why you're updating. The other issue is, how do you get > people to follow your app tweets..especially given that droid already gives > status updates for app updates? > > I do agree tho.. the market is VERY hard to find apps with. I don't know why > so many people say the iPhone app store is better. I don't think either one > are adapted to finding apps very easily. I can tell you, after talking to at > least 2 dozen people with iphone and droids... you know how they find apps? > They look at either the top 10 or so apps, usually under the free tab, or > they search for a specific title. Most people will miss tons of potentially > good apps that are further down in the list. I think what market needs is a > much better "drill down" feature. Have paid, free, top picks, and a "drill > down" so you can narrow down apps by multiple categories. iPhone could > benefit from the same feature. > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:15 AM, dadical <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been thinking a lot lately about how to gain visibility for > > mobile apps. It's getting more and more difficult as an independent > > developer to get your application noticed among the piles of crap that > > are stacking up in the market. I think that we need some way to > > socialize our applications and capitalize on the momentum that we do > > happen to build from things like reviews, forum postings, etc. > > > I've blogged about my ideas on how to make this happen here: > > >http://keyeslabs.com/joomla/index.php/blogs/i-think-im-becoming-an-an... > > > Thoughts? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
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