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Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients
- ceejayoz 4y agoSo a couple days ago these were claimed to be bans due to "long-standing rules". Someone at Twitter cracked time travel?
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoLong-standing in the sense of a standup meeting. The time from the addition of the rules to the bans would have been an uncomfortably long time to remain standing up.
- frankjr 4y ago> use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications. I guess this means the end of nitter.net as well...
- encryptluks2 4y agoI guess for now... unless someone wants to literally scrape Twitter until they figure out how to ban that as well. I don't think it is worth the time developing for Twitter anymore. These apps brought users to Twitter and now they want to take them away.
- Nextgrid 4y ago> I guess this means the end of nitter.net as well... Bitter already uses internal API endpoints and couldn't care less about the rules.
- hobbitstan 4y agoAdd that to the list of corporate doublespeak from Twitter, like ‘we don’t shadow ban’ or ‘we have no political bias’.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThis is why one should always be wary of platform risk, as a startup founder. While it might be profitable in the short term to use someone else's platform, it always comes with the implicit risk of being shut down on a whim. For growing an audience, email is platform with the lowest risk.
- faizmokhtar 4y agoDoes this applies to app like Buffer?
- karmakaze 4y agoThe solution is to give users a toolkit for making 'apps'. They enter their username and install the generated app which does a thing. When they run the app, enter their password. 1P apps only.
- karmakaze 4y agoWhere is the line that separates a 1P app from a 3P app? As tech gets higher and higher this will be increasingly hard to answer. Rotary dialing turned every caller into a telephone dispatcher/operator.