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This is also the approach Facebook has taken in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Everything has shifted back to the walled garden approach. Twitter

This is also the approach Facebook has taken in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Everything has shifted back to the walled garden approach. Twitter had destroyed a wide ecosystem of applications that promoted their brand several years ago via a similar approach. FB has done (and may be again doing) the same. The message remains clear: don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees. When the utility of having you as a promotional instrument wears off, they will dump you.

css 8y ago
> don't build your business on another business without contracts and guarantees Or even with them: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
- meesterdude 8y ago
  That's... amazing. These two tweets really show just how WTF this was > A vendor notified us of their acquisition at 6am this morning and shut down their APIs 30 minutes later, creating a production outage for npm (package publishes and user registrations). The sheer unprofessionalism of this is blowing my mind. > It takes weeks to negotiate and sign an acquisition. You didn't find out at 6am. You couldn't give us a week? Even a couple of hours to take your service out of our critical path and avoid an outage? Fucking shocking behavior.