Hacker News Reader

Well, my good idea was a client app, so no, I'm (and I suspect a good group of other) not welcome anymore.

Frankly, it should be a lot more about client apps and new ways to use the information in a personal manner instead of creating an API that looks for all the world like something I can use to automate my support staff on twitter and fire a bunch of people.

Building a useful client is a way to build on the platform. It's giving the users an alternative to use your platform...

Twitter is so afraid of losing their users that it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Maybe it would be useful and clarify the landscape if the client and data/reporting API channels were separated.