A little gratitude to developers from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world would not be amiss. Whether they are able to take such actions is not the question

A little gratitude to developers from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world would not be amiss. Whether they are able to take such actions is not the question; it's whether it is respectable or even a good business decision to treat developers so poorly. Many companies like this who were encouraging developers to use their public API two years ago have now decided we are only useful to the extent you can take advantage of us, while it's convenient. A few prominent VCs and CEOs have made it clear they think the time for any sort of idea of a partnership between open API service providers and developers is behind us.