Twitter Clamps Down on API, Will Affect App Devs
Twitter to developers: Drop Dead. What a shame
Twitter had such a strong potential to be a killer platform. Sadly, the dullards (Dick Costolo, loooking at you) running Twitter understand their service about as well as HP understands 'The Cloud' (Onion reference.)
Twitter is *not* an advertising platform. It will never be an advertising platform. Stop trying to make it into an advertising platform. Just about anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence could tell you:
1) It's not 2004
2) You're not Facebook. You don't harbor vast amounts of rich personal information that advertisers even crave
3) You have one of the few services that people *pay money* to access through truly excellent 3rd party clients (which for some reason you want to kill instead of monetize.)
4) You're not even developing the best user experience. (Remember the Dickbar, anyone?)
What a shame. Michael Sippey and Dick Costolo need to be axed.
Twitter is *not* an advertising platform. It will never be an advertising platform. Stop trying to make it into an advertising platform. Just about anyone with the slightest degree of intelligence could tell you:
1) It's not 2004
2) You're not Facebook. You don't harbor vast amounts of rich personal information that advertisers even crave
3) You have one of the few services that people *pay money* to access through truly excellent 3rd party clients (which for some reason you want to kill instead of monetize.)
4) You're not even developing the best user experience. (Remember the Dickbar, anyone?)
What a shame. Michael Sippey and Dick Costolo need to be axed.
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