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Leibniz-HBI / Social-Media-Observatory

This repository is the central communication and project management interface for the Social Media Observatory hosted by the Leibniz Insitute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute
https://leibniz-hbi.github.io/SMO/
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Add MeetUp to observed platforms long-term? #8

Closed FlxVctr closed 4 years ago

FlxVctr commented 4 years ago

It has a pretty open API and becomes more and more popular for offline networking.

manilevian commented 4 years ago

I checked out Meetup a bit. Indeed the API is very open, but we have to consider these facts about them:

  1. They "only" have 35mil users by 2017
  2. They charge their Users 24$/month for creating groups and similar. Which slows down growth.
  3. Facebook has just renewed their group functions to compete with meetup (They ofc. charge nothing but your data ;))
  4. The owner is WeWork, which I assume, you also know is a pretty greedy company!
  5. In order to use the API, you have to be a paying customer. Thats at least how I understood them. Also this dev. stopped programming because of that, see his readme: https://github.com/rdohms/meetup-api-client

We should most definitely keep an eye on meetup. For now, its just a small amount of users using meetup and therefore I would rather priories the following first and whenever we are done with this List, we can head to meetup:

Reddit, LinkedIn, Youtube, (Twitch)

and mobile chatting apps like: telegram, WeChat, TikTok, (Snapchat, LINE, discord)

That would be my idea. Maybe we should make a prio list :)

FlxVctr commented 4 years ago

Well, we already have the platforms that are part of the original proposal. But we could rethink this during our meeting in January when we want to decide on milestones.

I like the idea of a priority list for the more elaborated concept of the SMO. We should discuss that.