The telling quote from that article is this: > “Developers took to our service from day one and [gave] Twitter a much more global reach." Twitter would not be

The telling quote from that article is this: > “Developers took to our service from day one and [gave] Twitter a much more global reach." Twitter would not be where Twitter is today without outside developers building their company for them, through the creation of tools that users actually want to use to interface with Twitter. Twitter as a standalone product does not have a future. Every change they make that turns more developers away from the platform continues to reduce the number of users globally who are using Twitter in some fashion. It's a downward spiral. Twitter's demise is inevitable if they continue down this path. Developers should assist them by abandoning the platform in droves. There won't be much of a platform left to work with anyway, so why bother? Let Twitter be the next Yahoo.