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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Permit on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:03PM (#4394334)
If I use Twitter, it's not because of third party products. While I could see a decision like this severely impacting Facebook, whose applications I do use from time to time, I don't know that it will hurt Twitter.

Are there any ground breaking Twitter applications that are keeping users around? If not, why would they need to make themselves a platform?

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Re:Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients and limi... by Firehed on Thursday August 16, 2012 @08:41PM (#4394462)
I see myself using Twitter a lot less if I had to use their mobile app, rather than a third-party one that doesn't suck (I use TweetBot exclusively).

Conversely, I use no third-party Facebook applications, unless you count FB Connect as a more than a SSO mechanism (i.e., I'm not actually using FB or its network benefits on any site/app using FBC).

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