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I wonder why something like "If you want more than 100k usernames, either pay us $x per username or use our advertisement API and put whatever tweets/ads we pus
by koide 14y ago
I wonder why something like "If you want more than 100k usernames, either pay us $x per username or use our advertisement API and put whatever tweets/ads we push where we tell you to" is not an option.
It would be refreshingly honest and for some people/clients it could work, plus it could earn them some of the needed cash.
- tinco 14y agoThis doesn't work for them because Twitter has had 1.16 billion dollars in funding. Getting money from teeny little twitter apps is not the sort of plan they are going to make that money back with. Imagine if they charged a buck per username per year. This would probably be enough money to put tweetro out of business (say 100k dollar per year), but it would not come close to the amount of money they need to make. Even if something makes you good money, often you have to scrap it if it isn't or even endangers your core product.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoIt would work if their goal was to gently discourage developers writing client apps without totally cutting them off; an economic disincentive. But it doesn't make sense to do that, and they don't want to anyway.
- koide 14y agoTrue, you'd be left with "do the app like we tell you to" option, like offering an API where's mandatory to show the sponsored content in specific, Twitter approved ways. It would probably be a nightmare to implement well. A pity.