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CocoaPods was throttled not shut down. Twitter has an history of shutting down access to its API without notice or warning when a project becomes too popular.
by spriggan3 11y ago
CocoaPods was throttled not shut down. Twitter has an history of shutting down access to its API without notice or warning when a project becomes too popular.
- Razengan 11y agoWhat baffles me is that CocoaPods was actually providing something of value and their usage fit in with the purpose of GitHub (serving code.) EmojiTracker appears to be essentially frivolous and puts stress on Twitter's platform for no good reason. GitHub and Twitter both provided a free service and then modified it for a specific user without warning. I would say throttling CocoaPod affected more "legit" users than "shutting down" EmojiTracker did. (I put shutting down in quotes because it seems EmojiTracker still has limited access to their API?) How come Twitter gets called out as unconditionally Evil, yet GitHub was just looking after itself?