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With our new Bootstrap guidelines, we're trying to encourage activity in the upper-left, lower-left and lower right quadrants, and limit certain use cases that occupy the upper-right quadrant.

Nearly eighteen months ago, we gave developers guidance that they should not build form elements that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter Bootstrap experience. And to reiterate, that guidance continues to apply today.

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I didn't find any mention of this on the Bootstrap github project. And I feel I must ask: why? Bootstrap includes dropdowns, how is this different?

Parent is referencing the Twitter blog post about changes in Version 1.1 of the API which stirred some controversy because of the new rules and limitations for 3rd party developers. See the link below:

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api

I don't know of any similar limitations for Bootstrap, so you can probably safely assume that wickedchicken is kidding.

Most definitely a joke, though it took me a second to realize that myself.

It's a joke? I totally missed that! My perception for these things is rather obtuse, so thanks for pointing it out. I thought that perhaps the Twitter devs themselves had jumped the shark.

Oh damn got me too! I don't see a problem with enforcing design consistency rules however, probably why it flew over my head.

Open source != a company's core business.

Not that I think Twitter's recent announcements are smart; quite the contrary. However, a false comparison distracts from the real problem.

I also think your comment is funny.

Well played! I was halfway indignant before I got it.

I'll admit it, this one took me a long time and multiple reads to get the joke. well done.

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