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That sounds perfectly reasonable to be honest.
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
That sounds perfectly reasonable to be honest.
- smcl 4y agoPerfectly reasonable would be telling their existing API users “we will revoke your access to the APIs you are using and will introduce a new program where you have to pay a bit more to use them” with some kind of notice period that overlapped with the introduction of the new program. What they did was suddenly yank access for a handful of apps then go silent for four days, before sending an email out to API users for (maybe?) a new program which we can’t be 100% sure was part of the plan or just an old scheduled mailer by a now-fired person. We are left guessing because nobody really knows what’s going on at Twitter any more.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThat's not the topic at hand.
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- Vinnl 4y agoIt kinda is - that's the reason OP labelled it as "unbridled audacity".
- torben-friis 4y agoHow is their discontinuation without warning or communication of the old api not relevant to the topic of the new one?
- iLoveOncall 4y agoBecause the comment thread is about the monetization of the API, not how Twitter communicates with 3rd party developers.
- torben-friis 4y agoThe shutdown of the previous API is very relevant to monetization. If you were subscribed to a free service and they released a paid version, would your choice of paying be affected by the fact that your free account was removed without warning? What if you had built a business on the free account; would the sudden shutdown of your business affect your decision to build a new project on top of the paid product? Monetization requires users trusting you enough to pay, eroding lack of trust as you reveal your paid product is a mountain sized red flag.