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"Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients" Isn't it more: No more free data for 3rd party clients? (past a cert
by dusing 14y ago
"Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients"
Isn't it more: No more free data for 3rd party clients? (past a certain amount) Companies can still buy unlimited realtime data through twitter's monitization child DataSift. Meaning the death of free 3rd party apps. Maybe now that they have to charge a good chunk we will get better 3rd party apps?
- eridius 14y agoI haven't really looked at it, but I don't think DataSift is intended for twitter clients to use.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoNot certain about DataSift, but we used Gnip and part of the terms was you couldn't display tweets to your users directly off the firehose. I'd imagine DataSift has a similar restriction. Besides that; neither give you access to private tweets or DMs, so you pretty much have to use the API for a client of any worth.
- dabeeeenster 14y agoAre Twitter and DataSift linked in any way in terms of their company ownership etc?
- lamebrain 14y agoDid you miss when Twitter explicitly told developers not to make any more third-party Twitter clients? The situation is simple, and just as the comment you replied to states.