I feel the same way. Underneath all the high ideals people like to spout off about Twitter it all just comes off as sour grapes and armchair quarterbacking. Eve

I feel the same way. Underneath all the high ideals people like to spout off about Twitter it all just comes off as sour grapes and armchair quarterbacking. Everyone knows how to solve Twitter's problem unless you work for Twitter seems to be the message but we've heard all those ideas enough times and I'm quite sure Twitter is aware of alternative ways to run the company. So are we really going to think so highly of ourselves as to think we have the solution and the people running Twitter are just morons? Large companies do some idiotic things but I think we need to give them a little more credit than that. Now, am I saying we shouldn't blame Twitter? Of course not! The people, particularly and especially developers, have every right to be upset and the criticism of them locking down their API, changing the rules, bending the rules unfairly, and just generally acting in bad faith are justified. That said, in the end your point still stands. Twitter is a business and this is how it has chosen to become profitable. We have two choices now. Either deal with it or not use/develop for it. In my own personal opinion, I think that despite the anti-Twitter sentiment within the developer and tech community Twitter will still thrive precisely because of what they're doing now whether it's right or not. Obviously Twitter has decided that the prospect of losing the developer community is worth the risk. Hey, that's business.