Twitter Gives Developers 6 Months To “Properly” Display Tweet

People aren't building apps for fun. They're trying to build a business. No one in their right mind is going to invest in a business that's built in an area that can be bulldozed at any moment, and that's what twitter's platform is.

For developers, twitter is now officially a burning platform.

Craig's List comes to mind. They're doing fine.

How are they expecting to enforce that? Are they really going to download and test every third-party app?

It's a great way to restrict clients that integrate with other services, especially competitors like Facebook.

This essentially boils down to "any content sourced from the api must be displayed unmodified, in its entirety, and be properly attributed." It's a pretty standard thing across the entire internet. really, the only strange thing is the insistence that the author's username must be on a separate line from the tweet.

Hence Dalton Caldwell's "Audacious Proposal" and the birth of App.net.

https://join.app.net/

I highly doubt Twitter cares about them at all, and they'll most likely have their keys revoked.

The authors of these requirements don't seem to know or care that the World-Wide Web was never intended to mandate one visual-only rendering of your content, and in fact doesn't even do that very effectively. Most of them are pretty reasonable semantics (e.g., @user links to their profile) but as soon as you mention "lines" or "icons" or "top right" you're Doing It Wrong, and no affordances using other services is just blatantly anti-competitive.