> There was a time around 2010 when building a Twitter API client was the standard demo for a new UI framework — the data model was simple enough that a basic c

> There was a time around 2010 when building a Twitter API client was the standard demo for a new UI framework — the data model was simple enough that a basic client was the next step up from "Hello world" complexity. It's fascinating the Twitter we have today and the Twitter from that era are even considered the same app. I wrote a simple Twitter client in Cocoa and Python and even NodeJS. It was such a simple way to get a working, functional, usable demo going that you could immediately show to friends. Then they realized it's impossible to make money advertising this way and shut it down.