Whither Twitter as a Platform?

This is a big deal. They are making it harder to feel safe developing an app that will work with Twitter's API. They just removed any further access to whitelisting of the use of the API too as announced here but I doubt on any public blogs.

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t...

I want to build great things to make this communication system better, but they are scaring me and starting to sound like the old jokes about the old communication system, "We're The Phone Company... We Don't Care.. We Don't Have To."