Re:Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
by sillysaurus on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:42PM
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Twitter had better take a long, hard look at Joel's old essay on Platforms: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Platforms.html
Declaring war on your third-party developers is shortsighted at best, fatal at worst.
Re:Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
by iandanforth on Thursday August 16, 2012 @09:57PM
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Perhaps there is a class of people who pay for email apps. I'm not one of them. I don't see twitter as a platform, or at least don't use it as one. It is a communication medium which, for all my usage, could have no developer ecosystem.
Professionally I would love to have free access to the Firehose, that's some juicy data. But as a consumer Twitter 'apps' are no more worth my money than email apps.
Re:Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
by andrewfelix on Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:11PM
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>Their client is their main product
Is it? Their revenue stream will be coming from paid tweets, so aren't the tweets themselves their main product?
It seems grossly unfair that they punish other 3rd party clients who are doing exactly what Tweetie were doing 2 years ago.
Theres no way to stop you from building one anyway, twitter knows that. If you go against their rules, you're a revolutionary, and if you win that revolution, they'll have to deal with you.
You can't expect however, that the incumbent is going to go around encouraging revolutions against themselves.
The only alternative is to encourage everyone to make clients, at which point, they're just a big cloud xmpp server to the world.