With Twitter's changes to its API, announced yesterday, the API as we knew it is effectively dead.
Here's why it's a bad idea...
Things created by Twitter:
A selection of the things created by everyone else:
@ mentions
Retweets
Hashtags
Lists
Direct Messages
The Fail Whale
#FollowFriday
Embedding Tweets
The Twitter iOS and Mac apps
TweetDeck
Reader comments (5)
2:20PM on 17th August 2012
I'm all for brevity, but it's a complex issue.
Twitter totally snookered themselves by offering such an open API that they generated their own competitors. By comparison Facebook never made that mistake. Now they can't protect themselves without looking like a bully.
I think the statement that 'the API as we knew it is dead' is an exaggeration at this point though.
4:51PM on 17th August 2012
The changes the author laments affect developers. Twitter has been transparent about its desire to deliver value to users who generate revenue - developers are clearly seen as potential competitors.
6:18PM on 17th August 2012
I understand what Twitter's API is, but this article didnt expand beyond its opinionated title.
Independent Comms Consultant at MaxTB Ltd
10:56PM on 17th August 2012
You know when you have a good idea but it doesn't quite come off? That...
Thanks for the comments guys, think I might write this up again but elaborating a bit more on each feature that the community created. Could be more valuable!
Head of Online at Sodexo Prestige
9:28AM on 20th August 2012
Made the point nicely though @Maximilian
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