Twitter says it's ending legacy API support, used by third-party apps like Tweetbot, due to “technical and business constraints”
The Verge John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Twitter Addresses Why They've Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients Rob LeFebvre / Engadget : Twitter tries to reassure users amid backlash over third-party apps Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Twitter's Internal Email Details Why it Shut Down API That Powered Tweetbot, Twitterrific Ryan Whitwam / Android Police : Third-party Twitter apps got a lot worse today, thanks to Twitter Marrian Zhou / CNET : Here's why Twitter crippled apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific Tweets: John Gruber / @gruber : @robjohnson I prefer a third-party Twitter client for the same reason you use a third-party email client on your iPhone — one size doesn't fit all. http://daringfireball.net/... Ryan Grove / @yaypie : “Our goal is to deliver the best Twitter for you, so we've filled Twitter with hate speech, killed the Mac app, and crippled all third party clients.” http://blog.twitter.com/... JBD / @rakyll : This is how you don't run a developer platform. You cannot create a whole suite of business and kill it because you were not careful about what APIs you have given away. Once you put an API out there, you cannot take it back this way. http://twitter.com/... Avi Bryant / @avibryant : “These APIs were only used by 1% of our developers” is so meaningless I can only believe it was selected in bad faith as the metric to share. What percentage of “tweet-views via 3rd party clients” do they represent? http://twitter.com/... Guy English / @gte : For a company that wants you to think of it as a communication tool they sure end up blaming poor communication for their failings. https://twitter.com/...