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That is only true given the current state of Twitter's product and business model. I think it's a stretch to say that they can't make the necessary changes to a
by crabasa 11y ago
That is only true given the current state of Twitter's product and business model. I think it's a stretch to say that they can't make the necessary changes to align interests. In fact, I think they're dead in the water if they can't. And Jack knows that.
- rfrank 11y agoThat doesn't seem like a great incentive for a dev to work with Twitter's API until they figure that out...
- tracker1 11y agoTwitter could have gone to a royalty basis for API access from fairly early on. If they required that developers with more than 100 users agree to pay $1:user:year, or %10 percent of gross receipts, whichever is greater, then app developers would have to have some means of making money, and the flowback would be to twitter, while still allowing for experimental apps to continue being developed. Twitter cut off their nose despite their face here. Or for that matter, twitter itself could charge end users $10-15/year for being able to access their own account via API (anything but twitter's own client), and limit to X queries per day/month (something a real user is unlikely to exceed).. that would help keep the spam bots at bay.