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Agreed. I think a better analogy would be comparing this situation to being a squatter and seeing a real estate agent sign in the yard of the house you've been
by jetti 14y ago
Agreed. I think a better analogy would be comparing this situation to being a squatter and seeing a real estate agent sign in the yard of the house you've been squatting in. You realize that you only have a short amount of time to leech off the work of others before it is cut off.
- marquis 14y ago>leech off the work of others That's an unfair assessment. In same cases perhaps, but the core issues is that Twitter et al offer certain types of access and then revoke it. If this developer had reverse-engineered their API and they closed the loophole, leeching would be a more relevant term.
- vampirechicken 14y agoTwitter is a private service. You use it at their pleasure.
- goatforce5 14y agoExcept you weren't squatting because you were originally invited in (to use the API).