Twitter Clamps Down on API, Will Affect App Devs
Twitter to developers: Drop Dead. What a shame
Twitter had such a strong potential to be a killer platform. Sadly, the dullards (Dick Costolo, loooking at you) running Twitter understand their service about as well as HP understands 'The Cloud' (Onion reference.)
Twitter is *not* an advertising platform. It will never be an advertising platform. Stop trying to make it into an advertising platform. Just about anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence could tell you:
1) It's not 2004
2) You're not Facebook. You don't harbor vast amounts of rich personal information that advertisers even crave
3) You have one of the few services that people *pay money* to access through truly excellent 3rd party clients (which for some reason you want to kill instead of monetize.)
4) You're...
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Twitter is *not* an advertising platform. It will never be an advertising platform. Stop trying to make it into an advertising platform. Just about anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence could tell you:
1) It's not 2004
2) You're not Facebook. You don't harbor vast amounts of rich personal information that advertisers even crave
3) You have one of the few services that people *pay money* to access through truly excellent 3rd party clients (which for some reason you want to kill instead of monetize.)
4) You're...
(continues)
* trollface *
