Why the F are we still using Twitter

Re:Why the F are we still using Twitter by xs on Monday June 21, 2010 @11:58AM (#1449155)

Can someone say a little more about how twitter f's over the developer community? I was under the impression that facebook rejoices the developer community, with their love for open source.

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Re:Why the F are we still using Twitter by jackowayed on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:18PM (#1449229)

Twitter banned third-party ad networks after people had put a lot of work (and $5M of funding, in Ad.ly's case) into third-party ad networks.

And Facebook tried to screw over Zynga when they saw how much money they could be making if they forced Zynga to give them a cut by using Facebook's currency. Besides for that, they've been very good to developers. But that's a pretty egregious offense.

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Re:Why the F are we still using Twitter by angryasian on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:00PM (#1449168)

i detect sarcasm here.. out of 4 points only one focuses on developer community. I only bring it up as a point to support the argument.

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Re:Why the F are we still using Twitter by angryasian on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:18PM (#1449227)

Facebook has only released Cassandra, Hip Hop (PHP), and Thrift to the open source community. Not like these are that important.

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Re:Why the F are we still using Twitter by aarongough on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:25PM (#1449250)

Am I missing some sarcasm here? All of those are pretty serious pieces of engineering that we should be thankful to them for releasing freely...

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