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Twitter bans two Twitter clients

• metageek 16y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236746 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236746
  • joetek 16y ago
    This is a different perspective. It speaks to the developer relationship that Twitter worked so hard to cultivate in the early days, and turned around recently.
    • davewiner 16y ago
      Thanks. It's right there in the last paragraph. Maybe the other guys didn't make it that far. :-)
• decklin 16y ago
  IMHO this is disingenuous linkbait. An attempt is made to connect a political speech issue with a technical measure used to block certain software. Whether Twitter has any interest in blocking content might be an interesting discussion, but it has nothing to do with this afternoon's hot story.
  • mmastrac 16y ago
    Agreed. This post also neglects to mention that UberMedia has admitted to some TOS violations and that Twitter wants to get them back into the ecosystem: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/ubermedia-bill-gross-twitter-surprise/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/18/ubermedia-bill-gross-twitte...
    • davewiner 16y ago
      Pretty sure that hadn't been published when I wrote my piece. Maybe you guys should try this new idea called "benefit of the doubt." :-)
      • joshma 16y ago
        Maybe you should try this new idea of not overdramatizing to create link bait. :-)