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What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

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Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

#171
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet that Windows 8 has built-in Twitter integration that works very well.

Why do you need another client? Just go to the People Hub and click What's new. Need to reply or retweet? The buttons are right below the message. Need to see mentions or replies? Click Notifications.

Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

#173
post #172

Does anybody know of any Facebook apps that sort of do the same thing, i.e. recreate the Facebook newsfeed experience for users?

Shameless plug: http://picaapp.com. There are a few things we can't do due to the API not available for 3rd party apps

Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

#174
Tweetro should be happy that Twitter is not blaming them for using their platform in a way they prohibit. They want to use what Twitter has worked hard to build, make easy money, and then also want Twitter to spend extra to help them do it (by allowing more API calls etc) - why don't they build something original?

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Native > Web, if you do it right. Web has a lot of UX limitations native apps don't have.

That's why we (LiveLoop ) think Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc. will all grow to encompass Web Service in the application itself, rather than being replaced wholesale by Web apps the way Google wants you to. LiveLoop is our PowerPoint plugin that makes presentations real-time collaborative without ever having to leave Office -- available at http://getliveloop.com

The line between web apps with offline capability and native apps with online functionality is non existent.

Unless by native you mean written in a language that only works on a single platform.

Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

#176
In other words: “Even though we don’t currently have a Windows 8 client, we might have one in the future, so yours isn’t allowed.” http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again

I think its time that we the users took this up with the VC’s who have invested in Twitter and start putting pressure on them.

Anyone have access to the current cap table?

Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

#178

You 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.

Twitter would blacklist the IP(s).

but when you run the app on the end user machines they cant, its the same reason why they couldnt block MyTwitterButler

Re: What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit

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post #173
post #172

Does anybody know of any Facebook apps that sort of do the same thing, i.e. recreate the Facebook newsfeed experience for users?

Shameless plug: http://picaapp.com . There are a few things we can't do due to the API not available for 3rd party apps

Oh you guys are doing great work. I had a similar idea for a long time now, so its good to see it executed. :) Quick question: Does the API allow you to do interesting things with the newsfeed elements like tags and saving/searching?
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