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Perfectly 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
by smcl 4y ago
Perfectly 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.