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This is almost certainly a strategic move on Twitter's part to slow the spread of Instagram. I doubt it has to do with "developers" as others have surmised. Eve
by therealarmen 14y ago
This is almost certainly a strategic move on Twitter's part to slow the spread of Instagram. I doubt it has to do with "developers" as others have surmised. Even if it hurts Twitter's growth in the short term, in the long term it makes more sense to keep API access on for competitor photo-sharing apps and turn it off for Instagram (which is now a direct competitor). If Twitter buys Instagram, this sort of thing doesn't happen.
- landr0id 14y agoI'd actually love to have seen Instagram been acquired by Twitter instead of Facebook (if any acquisition had to happen). For me, I don't really use Facebook much anymore except for the occasional sharing of photos, and for everything else I use Twitter. Most status updates I see on Facebook now are about the length of a tweet, I'm not involved in any groups, don't "like" any pages; it all pretty much comes down to photos and text.