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Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don’t Try To Compete With Us On Clients

80 points by joshbert 16y ago

joe_the_user 16y ago
So, is an agregating client like seesmic still allowed? http://seesmic.com/ http://seesmic.com/ Edit: I see Seesmic mentioned as favored but the description sounds a lot different than what they describe their client as doing (that is, combining tweets with other alerts, something one might imagine would stand in the way of twitter's precious user experience).
- fryguy 16y ago
  Same thing with Trillian, which I use. I won't be using a standalone Twitter client for windows, so I guess it just means I won't be using Twitter if they remove the API access for them.
alanh 16y ago
Why was the direct link story from earlier today deleted?
- whakojacko 16y ago
  probably because It was a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791
svlla 16y ago
Twitter is a long con just like many other successful businesses, for example Google.
- dasil003 16y ago
  Right. A company providing a free service is probably looking to monetize your data, which is definitely a con job. Clearly you are being robbed by not monetizing your personal information directly.
apphacker 16y ago
I generally just use the web interface now.
mttwrnr 16y ago
While it's unfortunate that they're setting the precedent of discouraging certain uses of their API, it's also understandable. They're right to want their product to stay consistent and avoid fragmentation. The irony of it is that they acquired their official client.
kilian 16y ago
If Twitter wants cool apps, it better get around to building/supporting/documenting the @anywhere-to-oauth bridge, something Facebook (js-api to oauth) has had for a long, long time.
crux 16y ago
"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way.” What utter bullshit. As though any user has ever been confused by a multitude of interfaces for something that consists of: a name and a couple lines of text.
- joe_the_user 16y ago
  "We control the user experience" has become the slogan of monopolists everywhere!
eapen 16y ago
I like how the second paragraph of the quote ends "...ensure a high bar is maintained." I am taking it out of context but it seems like a good pun for the dickbar.
JoachimSchipper 16y ago
This is total blogspam. Original message at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/c82cd59c7a87216a http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t..., discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791.

80 points by joshbert 16y ago

So, is an agregating client like seesmic still allowed? http://seesmic.com/ http://seesmic.com/ Edit: I see Seesmic mentioned as favored but the description sounds a lot different than what they describe their client as doing (that is, combining tweets with other alerts, something one might imagine would stand in the way of twitter's precious user experience).

fryguy 16y ago
Same thing with Trillian, which I use. I won't be using a standalone Twitter client for windows, so I guess it just means I won't be using Twitter if they remove the API access for them.

alanh 16y ago

Why was the direct link story from earlier today deleted?

whakojacko 16y ago
probably because It was a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791

svlla 16y ago

Twitter is a long con just like many other successful businesses, for example Google.

dasil003 16y ago
Right. A company providing a free service is probably looking to monetize your data, which is definitely a con job. Clearly you are being robbed by not monetizing your personal information directly.

apphacker 16y ago

I generally just use the web interface now.

mttwrnr 16y ago

While it's unfortunate that they're setting the precedent of discouraging certain uses of their API, it's also understandable. They're right to want their product to stay consistent and avoid fragmentation. The irony of it is that they acquired their official client.

kilian 16y ago

If Twitter wants cool apps, it better get around to building/supporting/documenting the @anywhere-to-oauth bridge, something Facebook (js-api to oauth) has had for a long, long time.

crux 16y ago

"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way.” What utter bullshit. As though any user has ever been confused by a multitude of interfaces for something that consists of: a name and a couple lines of text.

joe_the_user 16y ago
"We control the user experience" has become the slogan of monopolists everywhere!

eapen 16y ago

I like how the second paragraph of the quote ends "...ensure a high bar is maintained." I am taking it out of context but it seems like a good pun for the dickbar.

JoachimSchipper 16y ago

This is total blogspam. Original message at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/c82cd59c7a87216a http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t..., discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791.