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Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh. I have to admit blinking twice my eyes
by danieldk 14y ago
Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh.
I have to admit blinking twice my eyes. On the other hand, if we don't want too many Sparrow episodes, developers should be compensated enough.
- jonknee 14y agoThey won't be compensated too much though because Twitter has made auth tokens arbitrarily scarce. AFAIK they have a cap of 100,000 customers for the lifetime of the product which means they're limited to $2M in revenue on this (less Apple's fees, so $1.4M and any returns would most likely still count against tokens but offer no revenue). It's not super lucrative, if they hadn't already started when Twitter announced its plans I don't think they would have made it.
- danieldk 14y agoThanks for this comment, it prompted me to read up more about Twitter's new policy for auth tokens. I had seen some headlines passing by, but didn't bother to read them. Anyway, then indeed it makes much sense for Tapbots to get the most out of relatively limited quantities. I guess that this also makes a strong point for App.net: users won't be bothered with apps and growth of the third-party ecosystem isn't artificially restricted.