Huh, access to Twitter's API is one of the reasons that Twitter took off, then they started locking that down, adding restrictions meant to destroy alternative

Huh, access to Twitter's API is one of the reasons that Twitter took off, then they started locking that down, adding restrictions meant to destroy alternative clients, because advertising. To me this is a breach of trust - i.e. the underdogs are all about openness, they're growing based on the goodwill of the early adopters, then once they get big, they forget about openness. Personally I couldn't give a damn about Twitter's need to monetize, they should have thought about that since the beginning, before promising things they couldn't deliver and growing based on the generated trust. Twitter is not alone in this, there are many other offenders, including Apple and Google. And they should really pay attention to what happened in the past, because once you piss off a significant portion of the industry, you can only go downhill from there. Companies like Microsoft can testify for that and oh look, they are the underdogs again.