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I Just Paid For a Promotional Video And Twitter Effectively Killed My Service

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When Google Maps announced they were going to start charging it was exactly like getting AIDS.

...Maybe don't compare losing API access to being a Cancer patient. This isn't going to kill you, or financially bankrupt you, or destroy your family...

Agreed. I think a better analogy would be comparing this situation to being a squatter and seeing a real estate agent sign in the yard of the house you've been squatting in. You realize that you only have a short amount of time to leech off the work of others before it is cut off.

>leech off the work of others

That's an unfair assessment. In same cases perhaps, but the core issues is that Twitter et al offer certain types of access and then revoke it. If this developer had reverse-engineered their API and they closed the loophole, leeching would be a more relevant term.

Twitter is a private service. You use it at their pleasure.

Except you weren't squatting because you were originally invited in (to use the API).

I agree the metaphor is a bit excessive, but it was supposed to mean "knowing the imminent end of something". Of course, life is incomparable in value to a simple product, but that's what metaphors are about.

I personally can't fathom how I could live with a business model that depends on the TOS of other companies. I mean, sure there are markets for these kinds of things, but the risk associated with it scare me shitless.

I stopped reading at the cancer reference. What a joke.

What a bigoted statement. So, metaphors should no longer be used? If I can afford to write this metaphor, having lost my brother 3 months ago, I don't really get it how people are so sensitive about metaphors, even if they are a bit too strong.

I welcome metaphors but your use was...well, shit. You basically dropped the word cancer in there then moved on without fleshing out the thought. And just because you've lost someone doesn't make it less offensive. You're comparing your first world problems to a crippling illness. I might be bigoted but you're a petty child in my eyes.

Although I don't agree with this way of thinking, I acknowledge that some people may find a metaphor offensive. For that, I removed mine, but I hope people will start understanding when words are meant to be offensive and when it's just humour or metaphors.

This is the downside of building a product which is at the mercy of another companies service.

The video is good. Tried to find a site of who did it, but could only get a Vemeo page. Maybe you can get some supplemental income on creating them a site to sell their videos.

Their site is linked from their Vimeo page:

http://www.2dream-animation.com/

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