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>concluding "don't build anything for Twitter" is just throwing a temper tantrum. Not really. They led people on, over the years, into building on their API. P

>concluding "don't build anything for Twitter" is just throwing a temper tantrum. Not really. They led people on, over the years, into building on their API. People spent a lot of time and money building Twitter clients. Then they pulled the rug out. Why would you build anything using an API that could get arbitrarily locked down in the future?

k-mcgrady 14y ago
From what I can tell it doesn't affect current clients, only new ones.
- Firehed 14y ago
  It affects current clients; they just enforce the limits differently. You can get up to the greater of 2x your current userbase or 100,000 users at the time of the announcement. For applications with a massive install base that could still allow for significant growth, but they're still limited to not more than doubling in size.
jcromartie 14y ago
The thing I don't get is: why build a Twitter client? Doing anything remotely useful with Twitter involves building something really substantial on top of the stream of tweets and users.
- Firehed 14y ago
  Hardly. I find Twitter's official clients' UIs atrocious, and happily paid for a third-party's implementation with roughly the same functionality (TweetBot, if you care). I don't find data mining of mostly-mundane content terribly interesting, with the exception of people posting photos of their debit cards (https://twitter.com/needadebitcard https://twitter.com/needadebitcard)
  - dkersten 14y ago
    WTF? Why do people post photos of their debit cards online?!?
    - modarts 14y ago
      Haha, glad to see I wasn't the only one shocked by that. That's pretty incredible actually.
      - Firehed 14y ago
        That's nothing compared to when one of the issuing banks @replied to the person doing it, telling them to remember to set up online account access. Yes, I'm serious.
  - aviswanathan 14y ago
    Literally lol'd when I saw the needadebitcard feed.
- mcantelon 14y ago
  Twitter's official web client has no filtering capability, for one thing. For that reason alone I can't use it regularly.
streptomycin 14y ago
But the rug was pulled out well before anyone was thinking about writing Windows 8 app. And you build with proprietary APIs because that's where the users are. You can make a StatusNet client with no worries, but nobody will care.
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k-mcgrady 14y ago

From what I can tell it doesn't affect current clients, only new ones.

Firehed 14y ago
It affects current clients; they just enforce the limits differently. You can get up to the greater of 2x your current userbase or 100,000 users at the time of the announcement. For applications with a massive install base that could still allow for significant growth, but they're still limited to not more than doubling in size.

jcromartie 14y ago

The thing I don't get is: why build a Twitter client? Doing anything remotely useful with Twitter involves building something really substantial on top of the stream of tweets and users.

Firehed 14y ago
Hardly. I find Twitter's official clients' UIs atrocious, and happily paid for a third-party's implementation with roughly the same functionality (TweetBot, if you care). I don't find data mining of mostly-mundane content terribly interesting, with the exception of people posting photos of their debit cards (https://twitter.com/needadebitcard https://twitter.com/needadebitcard)
- dkersten 14y ago
  WTF? Why do people post photos of their debit cards online?!?
  - modarts 14y ago
    Haha, glad to see I wasn't the only one shocked by that. That's pretty incredible actually.
    - Firehed 14y ago
      That's nothing compared to when one of the issuing banks @replied to the person doing it, telling them to remember to set up online account access. Yes, I'm serious.
- aviswanathan 14y ago
  Literally lol'd when I saw the needadebitcard feed.
mcantelon 14y ago
Twitter's official web client has no filtering capability, for one thing. For that reason alone I can't use it regularly.

streptomycin 14y ago

But the rug was pulled out well before anyone was thinking about writing Windows 8 app. And you build with proprietary APIs because that's where the users are. You can make a StatusNet client with no worries, but nobody will care.

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