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How will they handle console twitter apps (ttyter and bitlbee for example) where formatting can't happen to match their requirements?

• jonursenbach 14y ago
  I highly doubt Twitter cares about them at all, and they'll most likely have their keys revoked.
  • viper1092 14y ago
    Rat bastards. I'm sure you're right.
• prodigal_erik 14y ago
  The authors of these requirements don't seem to know or care that the World-Wide Web was never intended to mandate one visual-only rendering of your content, and in fact doesn't even do that very effectively. Most of them are pretty reasonable semantics (e.g., @user links to their profile) but as soon as you mention "lines" or "icons" or "top right" you're Doing It Wrong, and no affordances using other services is just blatantly anti-competitive.
  • chmars 14y ago
    … not to mention the issue of accessibility. Is Twitter going to block access for visually impaired users by enforcing the new rules? Tweetie (now Twitter app) at least is a horrible app from an accessibility point of view and could only improve …