What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
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#2If my salary depended on the Twitter API right now I'd be scared shitless.
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#3This is really idiotic. What are they trying to do? Make sure that all the top users flock to App.net or somewhere else?
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#4I think some people might call this "biting the hand that feeds you". Or at least the hand that got you started.
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#5While I've disagreed a lot with a lot of Marco's blog posts, gotta say he's totally right on this one. Actually this is bigger than Twitter, as any new platform that comes out that wants Devs to develop for their API needs to be treated with a certain cynicism: if the platform gets big enough, they'll likely cut you out.
I wonder if this trend between FB, Twitter, etc. is going to ruin the ability for new companies and new platforms to attract free development by third parties?
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#6If you build a company around someone else's free API, you're either a high stakes gambler or a moron.
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#7*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”
Exactly, that's precisely the message they wanted you to have.
What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.
I don't get anyone is surprised, it's Twitter's ecosystem and if you're duplicating their functionality then it's perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they'd likely give you a higher limit, but that's not the case...
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#8You know, back before APIs were all the rage, people wrote clients for web services by scraping. Twitter really wouldn't be able to do anything about a Twitter client that pretended to be IE9.
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#9If my salary depended on the Twitter API right now I'd be scared shitless.
Unless you work for Twitter, I'd say you're right, and rightly so. Don't depend on someone else's API, how many times must history repeat itself before this message sinks in.
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#10This is really idiotic. What are they trying to do? Make sure that all the top users flock to App.net or somewhere else?
Considering that I don't know a single real-life person that is on app.net, I wouldn't consider it an alternative to anything.