Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don’t Try To Compete With Us On Clients

"We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way.” What utter bullshit. As though any user has ever been confused by a multitude of interfaces for something that consists of: a name and a couple lines of text.

I like how the second paragraph of the quote ends "...ensure a high bar is maintained."

I am taking it out of context but it seems like a good pun for the dickbar.

While it's unfortunate that they're setting the precedent of discouraging certain uses of their API, it's also understandable. They're right to want their product to stay consistent and avoid fragmentation.

The irony of it is that they acquired their official client.

If Twitter wants cool apps, it better get around to building/supporting/documenting the @anywhere-to-oauth bridge, something Facebook (js-api to oauth) has had for a long, long time.

So, is an agregating client like seesmic still allowed?

http://seesmic.com/

Edit: I see Seesmic mentioned as favored but the description sounds a lot different than what they describe their client as doing (that is, combining tweets with other alerts, something one might imagine would stand in the way of twitter's precious user experience).

This is total blogspam. Original message at http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t..., discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314791.

Why was the direct link story from earlier today deleted?

Twitter is a long con just like many other successful businesses, for example Google.