fc-updates

We're shutting down the x-posting experiment. 

For a few months, we've been testing a feature with a few users to cross posts their tweets from X to Farcaster. 

We're shutting it down because we can't get it to work reliably with the current APIs, and when it fails it's really frustrating for users.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Difference in content types make this really hard to work 100%. 

It's also not achieving the goal of increasing conversations. People who x-post don't use the app any more frequently. People who see x-posts are les likely to engage because the content isn't authentic to FC.

I've never liked the idea of cross posting content — it comes across as lazy or perhaps inauthentic

Context matters for communication, and context sparks conversations