# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 3
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/ldo2vna
This one from Arstechnica is gold, and short enough not to need a TL;DR, but:
> Despite Google's complaining about iMessage, the company seems to have learned nothing from its years of messaging failure. Today, Google messaging is the worst and most fragmented it has ever been. As of press time, the company runs eight separate messaging platforms, none of which talk to each other: there is Google Messages/RCS, which is being promoted today, but there's also Google Chat/Hangouts, Google Voice, Google Photos Messages, Google Pay Messages, Google Maps Business Messages, Google Stadia Messages, and Google Assistant Messaging. Those last couple of apps aren't primarily messaging apps but have all ended up rolling their own siloed messaging platform because no dominant Google system exists for them to plug into.
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> The situation is an incredible mess, and no single Google product is as good as Hangouts was in 2015. So while Google goes backward, it has resorted to asking other tech companies to please play nice with it while it continues to fumble through an incoherent messaging strategy.
@fastidious Yeah I wasn't _really_ aware of what mess Google/Alphabet has created in their so-called "Messaging" ecosystem, but I agree with you. It's total utter garbage. - In fact Id' go so far as to say Android as an ecosystem is total and utter garbage. Google made sure of that 😂 You're probably better off honestly with some of the Android alternatives 🤣
@fastidious Yeah I wasn't _really_ aware of what mess Google/Alphabet has created in their so-called "Messaging" ecosystem, but I agree with you. It's total utter garbage. - In fact Id' go so far as to say Android as an ecosystem is total and utter garbage. Google made sure of that 😂 You're probably better off honestly with some of the Android alternatives 🤣