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I'm not sure what authors thought would happen when their apps hit this wall. Twitter has no reason to listen or help provide a living for these authors. I thin
by nemof 14y ago
I'm not sure what authors thought would happen when their apps hit this wall. Twitter has no reason to listen or help provide a living for these authors. I think it was an asinine thing of twitter to do, but also shows the fragility of relying on a third party API for your business.
Also, the author should withdraw their app from the play market now, otherwise they're going to end up with an awful lot of sales for an app that can no longer be used being bought by people who have no understanding as to what a token limit is.
- lambast 14y agoWhat if they sold their code to a different entity, which would rebrand the app and use a different token? Marketing issues aside, wouldn't it buy them slots for 100k new users?
- kybernetyk 14y agoOr they could release version 2.0 as a separate app. But then again: It's all speculation because we don't know how Twitter would handle those cases. And being at the mercy of another company is a really terrible position to be in.
- nemof 14y agoI guarantee that if twitter sees you trying to get around their limits they will revoke your dev key. The reason they did this was to discourage third party apps in the first place, they wouldn't leave a loop hole allowing people to do this.