dustyreagan

TwitPic, TweetDeck, Klout, Twitter's own iPhone app was once Tweetie (a 3rd party app), Hootsuite, Favstar, here's some more http://socialmediatoday.com/node/295232

Well, I think the point is, building Twitter clients use to be allowed, even encouraged, by Twitter. And now it's a big no-no. So even though they're only restricting new client development, the restriction affect anyone developing with the Twitter API. What's not to say the type of app you're building today won't be restricted tomorrow.

There was talk about this happening years ago: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_api_to_get_ads_...

I guess nothing ever came of it. :/

Well, I think the primary needle to move would be the max rate limit, with plan overages costing more.

I've heard numbers along the lines of millions of Twitter apps. From last year: http://mashable.com/2011/07/11/twitter-1-million-application... Who knows the percentage of serious apps. Twitter probably. Still, I'd imagine even would-be serious apps would pay for minimal Twitter API access.

That does actually make sense. I think it's folly, but I guess I'm biased.

Personally, I think I'd find pricing tiers as a relief. It might be a hard pill to swallow at first, but in the long run it aligns third party API developers and Twitter's interests. Twitter would have a reason to provide quality support to developers, and in turn developers would have a stronger sense of security in developing using the Twitter API, since they're paying for it.

Pricing is hard to get right. But they have years of data, a billion dollars, and 140 employees. I think they have the resources to give it a good first estimate.

Why can't they do both? I have a hard time believing giving the API away for free somehow costs less to manage than charging for it.

That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie, and have since begun shunning third party developers. In short, the official apps were third party apps, and now no one wants to make any additional Twitter apps because Twitter has become hostile to developers. They've closed the door on third party inovation for their platform.

Well, at least they're giving us a long lead time until 1.1.

I know there's competition in this space already, but I'm throwing my hat in the ring. Feedback most welcome!

Pardon my ignorance, but what is RFS short for?

I find the whole "if you love it then you don't need this" sentiment at best naive, and at worst arrogant.

Sometimes we all have to do things we don't want to do. This includes, at times, working on your own project. There's nothing wrong with you, or what you're working on, if you actively try to limit your distractions.

If your project is so awesome you never get distracted, good for you. Kindly, take your hubris elsewhere.

Kickstarter for science: http://www.petridish.org/

How do you propose we know what actions to take without first studying the problem? If your car breaks down, you don't immediately start disassembling the car, you troubleshoot (study the problem, if you will), then apply a reasonable solution.

I'm fairly certain this is a fictional virus. But, I don't think I've ever encountered anything similar IRL. I wonder why such a virus doesn't exist? Perhaps the same people who might make a "nice virus" have an ethical dilemma about writing a virus in general, regardless of it's intended purpose?

In any case, I'd totally get behind a virus that forced an IE6 upgrade! :)

Awesome! Thanks! I really appreciate it! :)

Thanks for saying so! Thanks for using it! :)

Does DataSift have a service that returns up to date follower data? I thought they dealt only in Tweet streams.

Nice work! I actually created something very similar http://friendorfollow.com.

The hard part is dealing with Twitter's API rate limit and scaling. It's nearly impossible to pull down the data for large accounts like @aplusk. 5k id's at a time, pulled synchronously (due to Twitter's API paging system), by the time you're able to get all the data, he's already received 1k new followers.

Why? The topic isn't time sensitive.

The typical things, IP protection, confidentiality, code ownership rights, payment terms.

Do you use oDesk for all your development work? The "timeclock" feature they have seems valuable. Is it worthwhile enough to bring an outside developer, one you haven't worked with before, into oDesk to work together?

I wonder what the general opinion is on legal protection (such signing a contractor agreement) when working with someone in another country. I figure it must be hard to enforce, and you'd mainly be working based on trust. But, it seems like having some sort of legal agreement in place, regardless of how difficult it would be to enforce, would be prudent.

Anyone have experience with this?

I feel like the author is too hard on TwitterCounter. Granted I'm not a paying customer, but their pay wall seems like it's in a reasonable spot to me. Am I in the minority on this one?

No. This is James Cameron the director. Same guy that funded Deepsea Challenger. This guy is doing some pretty cool stuff with his money.

Great poster, but instead of donation button, you should have a "buy a print" button.

Someone needs to write a universal javascript plugin that would create an interstitial landing page with info and action items about SOPA. The user could then dismiss the interstitial page, and it'd roll up as a bar at the top of the site.

The javascript would be easy for site admins to add, and it would be easy to distribute.

I don't want to make this, but I'd add it to my sites if it was designed well. :)

Recently I found myself counting the revenue streams of local businesses. It's been an interesting exercise, so I thought I'd try sharing it.

It'd be nice if these were ranked with HN user growth in mind. It looks like most of these stories are recent, probably because Hacker News has more users now. There are probably good stories being hidden because they're old and had a smaller pool of HN users to vote them up.

If one were to get a MBP with the standard Serial ATA Drive, could it later be replaced with SSD? I've never seen an SSD drive, I'm wondering if the conector is the same as Serial ATA?

I'm thinking I might just get the standard drive and upgrade it aftermarket.

Testing prices sounds great, but how do you test prices for SaaS subscriptions? I can't just lower or raise prices without making at least a moderately big-to-do about it.

Why is Netflix performing seppuku?