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> Twitter no longer wants to be a web app. Twitter wants to be a set of APIs that power mobile clients worldwide, acting as one of the largest real-time event b
by aroman 13y ago
> Twitter no longer wants to be a web app. Twitter wants to be a set of APIs that power mobile clients worldwide, acting as one of the largest real-time event busses on the planet.
Wait, then why are they actively destroying their third-party app ecosystem...?
- grbalaffa 13y agoYeah, somebody hasn't gotten the memo it seems.
- blazingfrog2 13y agoThe piece did not say "third party". I'm assuming these clients are the official Twitter mobile apps.
- mey 13y agoThe two are not the same. It sounds like they are becoming API driven to support multiple interfaces and to put clear boundaries between systems.
- zanny 13y agoSounds like html. Or qt. Not 140 characters.
- Yhippa 13y agoProbably their mobile clients. After I read the article perhaps Twitter felt that having control of the clients reduces variability in stress to their system. Like bad actors accessing the firehose suboptimally.