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Not only was his business built on top of the Twitter API, but his "key feature" was merely semantics. I'm not even convinced he should get the credit for origi
by benackles 14y ago
Not only was his business built on top of the Twitter API, but his "key feature" was merely semantics. I'm not even convinced he should get the credit for originality, Stowe Boyd published an article on the topic in July of 2009 [1].
Companies that rely wholly on a third-party API aren't sustainable businesses, they're hobbies and oddly they have become overfunded hobbies. Twitter's starting to put a lot of hobby-companies out of business.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20091015145325/http://www.microsyntax.org/post/145367045/sponsored-posts-microsyntax-ad-better-than-ad http://web.archive.org/web/20091015145325/http://www.microsy...
- dedward 14y agoCompanies that rely on a third-party API that they isn't contracted and paid for aren't sustainable.... if it's free, it can be taken away. Unless I'm missing something and he was paying twitter for this.....