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Comment by malvosenior | Hacker News Reader

Twitter has repeatedly demonstrated that they are not a developer friendly company and that you should never build anything on their APIs. Since day one, they've done nothing but crack down on 3rd party development and peel away access.

They are the last company that should be trusted to develop an open standard.

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I've been banned for many years and can no longer get access to even my own data

Well, maybe second-to-last.

You can't just say that and not tell who you think is last

It's going to be Oracle.

Obviously, it's Facebook.

Because there has to be one giant tech company that everyone hates and Microsoft lost interest in the position over 5 years ago.

From this thread the only conclusion I can draw is that Twitter is in the bottom five. Which is bad enough.

But it looks like a ranking where one can only rank at the bottom. Who is the company most loved by developers? GitHub? Stripe? Atlassian? SalesForce? Each of them has done something wrong at some point, and it may even be the sign of management’s ability to get rid of cruft, even if those choices don’t make us happy.

Pretty sure Oracle trumps Google too, which puts them in second. I guess that makes Twitter third-to-last on that list.

... and Oracle's got one hell of a lead on the rest of the race.

I think they meant Google, who are notorious for shutting down projects.

Facebook

i'm with you but isn't this different, given that it's open source? of which twitter itself will eventually be a client

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