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Twitter was the prime example of an API that was good, and had promised to become even better, and then - due to internal pivot towards more marketing and adver

Twitter was the prime example of an API that was good, and had promised to become even better, and then - due to internal pivot towards more marketing and advertising - became crippled. What Dalton tried to say was, create a platform that could be everything, and it'll never become crippled. Also, this idea stems from a time, a couple of years ago, where some people used to consider twitter a sort of data platform and not a social media platform. The fantastic api allowed people to hack together gadgets that used the twitter api to communicate with other gadgets, people used it as an api channel for real time chess games, etc. That's what Twitter, the platform, was in the eyes of many people. While Twitter nowadays sees itself as something entirely different. In the platform-kind-of-way, the tweets are not imporant, they're only one example of what could be done on top of the API.

yapcguy 13y ago
App.net is/was DOA. Dalton managed to con(vince) a bunch of developers to fork over money, but really, nobody cares what happens to App.net because the platform is proprietary and not open-source.
- neuroscr 13y ago
  So open-standards don't matter? While they haven't given their source for their backend, they've been pretty open about how it's built, plus they've open sourced several pieces of their platform (Omega, Pourover, Ohe). App.net is for the general consumer that's not going to be able to run their own server stack. If you can run your own server stack, you can use all these open standards outlined in this blog posts to consume the data and do what you like. There's even a http://dev-lite.jonathonduerig.com/ http://dev-lite.jonathonduerig.com/ so you don't need to pay anything to tinker with their API.