Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbon’s Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature
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#2"What’s interesting is how quickly Twitter reacted to the situation, which makes one wonder who might have brought the violation, or issue, to Twitter’s attention."
Err....TechCrunch, two hours earlier? Or is that the joke?
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#3Does Twitter want to scare off every developer? I mean its kind of absurd to just shut down a newly launched service on the same day that it launches. It may violate their policy, fine, change your policy or be friendly with developers to really help them become compliant. This is the Apple/Appgratias thing all over again (in the same week); We don't like what you are doing so we will just shut you down, and boo if you don't like. Imagine how much trust Twitter would get if they would simply work with these app developers instead of drastically changing policy/just making things stop working. Right now, as it stands, I will never even touch their ecosystem in fear that I get more restricted, or even worse, have an entire element of my business shutdown without being able to do anything about it.
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#4Are you surprised?
Why don't we all go back to AOL and Geocities. The problem with Twitter is that it is not clear exactly what their approach to their revenue problem might be. I understand they want to monetize their API but does that go hand-in-hand with quashing every potential competitor who happens to use the API with a modicum of success?
I'm bearish about any company that builds a data warehouse on the basis of access and open-ness and then decides to restrict that access at a later date for the sake of profitability. It's just distasteful and speaks volumes.
This is a great example of why you should never build a business on Twitter: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2013/03/04/how-twitter-came-to...
Partnering with Twitter is still quite reasonable, but creating an Enterprise based upon their APIs is foolish at best.
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#6Hope the Ribbon guys manage to get it resolved. I think it's a great use of the Twitter cards feature and am slightly baffled as to why Twitter would even give developers access to the feature, if only to shut them down immediately afterwards.
I also agree with the sentiment that building anything on Twitter is a risky proposition these days. That said, there's still an appeal in doing so given the volume of users.
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#7I remember laughing hysterically when I read the phrase "command line for the web" a long time ago. The money has to come from somewhere eventually.
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#8Is Twitter trying to scare developers off of it's platform!?
Re: Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbon’s Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature
#9Here's the post about this on Ribbon's blog:
http://blog.ribbon.co/an-update-on-in-stream-payments-on-twi...
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#10Is Twitter trying to scare developers off of it's platform!?
No, it just tracks which developer has good ideas, makes their applications against TOS and then implements the same thing badly.