> It's such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so > than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the > original form of their product as t

> It's such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so > than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the > original form of their product as they can. I admire that. Except for that time they blocked third party access to their API. That was kinda big. [0]. I guess you could also say that this move supports your point of view, but those third parties were partly responsible for the popularity of the platform. [0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/twitter-tells-third-party-devs-to-stop-making-twitter-client-apps/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/twitte...