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- essentially be crippling many of the third-party apps that got the company where it is today; and
- severely bloating and degrading the user experience
- "Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes" by Marco Arment at Marco.org
- "Twitter sets max user caps for 3rd party clients, tightens API rules to direct users to official apps" by Matthew Panzarino at The Next Web
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Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API
Twitter’s Michael Sippey posted an update at their Developers Blog yesterday announcing that the company will:
Of course, that’s my take on it. Read the linked post and feel free to draw your own conclusions, but I’m willing to bet that they’ll be similar to mine…
Taken as a whole, the changes at Twitter are probably the most powerful form of advertising Dalton Caldwell's new App.net could possibly have imagined.
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