Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-28 Thread Mark Ng
2009/1/27 Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com: Hi all, I actually point my users to the competing apps in my about page both of which are more well known than mine ( http://twitfave.com/home/about ). But I'm not currently trying to make money out of my app, so that probably guides my ethics a bit.

Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-27 Thread Stuart
2009/1/27 Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com: I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about

Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Brickley
On 27/1/09 19:07, Chad Etzel wrote: Hi all, I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about

Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-27 Thread iematthew
I was not aware of this tactic, but I agree with Stuart. The users should and will decide which apps are sleazy and which are not. If the followers of a poacher don't care for the tactic, they will vote with a click of the un-follow button and take their traffic elsewhere. On Jan 27, 1:25 pm,

Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-27 Thread Damon Clinkscales
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. Chad, One thing I've done is to create two distinct accounts for the SnapTweet application@snaptweet and @snaptweetdev. Eventually, I perceived that

Re: Twitter app user poaching

2009-01-27 Thread Chad Etzel
Thanks all for you feedback. I do agree that it is a free market and people will indeed vote with their clicks. I don't just sit back and hope that people stick around on my apps. I am always proactively (and sometimes reactively) adding features to my apps to improve them. And competition is