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No thanks.
I dislike this new trend of linking to 'meme' like images within a blog post. It really detracts from the post and gives it a childish feel. I clicked those links expecting hard evidence about Twitter's bad API, instead I get irritating comics and stop signs. No thanks.
They could easily have been embedded direct, for what little value they offer. As it stands, it's just frustrating and really poor writing.
They always end up lashing out at the wrong people - in this case smart developers who are giving them free promotion and creating value for their users.
It's sad because Twitter had by far the best platform to build innovative software off of, but now I wouldn't touch Twitter's API with a 10 foot pole. There's too much risk that I'll spend lots of time putting something together and then getting shut down.
The worst part about it is that spammers still easily use the Twitter API but legitimate software gets rate limited or shut down. It's really sad given the potential that Twitter had.
I use Twitter to talk to some of my friends, share things I think are cool links, follow a few people whose work I admire, and occasionally tweet links to my own work. I don't follow back everyone who follows me; I basically regard Twitter as a sort of IRC channel where I get to choose who's in it.
How do people who actually need this kind of tool use Twitter?
I'm looking at the features and the future features this app has and wondering who the heck it's for. I've never gotten DM spam, I've never had to think about using a machine to unfollow junk accounts. I use Twitter to talk to some of my friends, share things I think are cool links, follow a few people whose work I admire, and occasionally tweet links to my own work. I don't follow back everyone who follows me; I bas…
You can build a Twitter account with real followers pretty quickly that way.
You don't have to make calls to get the rate limit left, it comes in the API response HTTP header. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting Look for these headers: X-FeatureRateLimit-Limit X-FeatureRateLimit-Remaining X-FeatureRateLimit-Reset
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/application/rate_li...
Once again I'm just sad to see the continued erosion from the awesomeness that was Twitter. Twitter are killing off the good and magnifying the bad, all in the pursuit of goals that seem to be forcing a continuous decrease in the quality of end user experiences. The dumbest thing about this is that monetizing Twitter is trivial, without changing anything else. Just put occassional and obvious ads in our streams, and…
That doesn't sound trivial to me. Many would just use a client/extension that doesn't render said obvious ads. On the other hand, that is the status quo of the web (cf. AdBlock) and it mostly works.
I am also of the opinion that a vary cheap add blocking option say 1$/month would prevent most people from jumping though many hoops for add-block software.
Almost every single feature of Twitter (including its logo!) was created by third party devs or users. Not surprising that when the API is severely restricted, the fun stops.
The logo was created by Simon Oxley. It's misleading because while Oxley is a Twitter user, he didn't create it for Twitter: he created as stock imagery, and Twitter purchased the rights to use the image via iStockphoto: http://www.wired.com/business/2009/03/twitter-designe/
It gets into false territory because subsequent versions of the logo were developed by designers either Twitter employed or contracted with.
Even if you're talking about the "T" logo variant, it's also not true: the "T" logo was simply the "T" from Twitter's original wordmark, which was simply the Pico Alphabet font designed in 2001 by a Japanese design firm, Maniacker's Design: http://www2.wind.ne.jp/maniackers/pico.html