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Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they'v
by malvosenior 7y ago
Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they've done nothing but crack down on 3rd party development and peel away access.
They are the last company that should be trusted to develop an open standard.
- techlaw 7y agoWell, maybe second-to-last.
- HJain13 7y agoYou can't just say that and not tell who you think is last
- majormjr 7y agoIt's going to be Oracle.
- frogpelt 7y agoObviously, it's Facebook. Because there has to be one giant tech company that everyone hates and Microsoft lost interest in the position over 5 years ago.
- MrZongle2 7y agoFrom this thread the only conclusion I can draw is that Twitter is in the bottom five. Which is bad enough.
- alexis_fr 7y agoBut it looks like a ranking where one can only rank at the bottom. Who is the company most loved by developers? GitHub? Stripe? Atlassian? SalesForce? Each of them has done something wrong at some point, and it may even be the sign of management’s ability to get rid of cruft, even if those choices don’t make us happy.
- philpem 7y agoPretty sure Oracle trumps Google too, which puts them in second. I guess that makes Twitter third-to-last on that list. ... and Oracle's got one hell of a lead on the rest of the race.
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- apeace 7y agoI think they meant Google, who are notorious for shutting down projects.
- zemo 7y agoFacebook
- aranw 7y agoI've been banned for many years and can no longer get access to even my own data
- javiermares 7y agoi'm with you but isn't this different, given that it's open source? of which twitter itself will eventually be a client