<story><title>Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/twitter-ceo-dorsey-apologizes-to-developers-says-he-wants-to-reset-relations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Oh, so another cycle starts. Here&amp;#x27;s a note I took back earlier, around the time of the original Twitter fiasco, pasted straight from my quotes file:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * Sovereign from Mass Effect on using someone else&amp;#x27;s technology
    
    &amp;quot;Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays,
    our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths
    we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You
    exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.&amp;quot;

    Strangely, it seems to describe recent (2012&amp;#x2F;2013) situation with
    API of Twitter perfectly.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blantonl</author><text>And this is exactly how it should be.  If you want to build your business on the back of someone else who is doing the heavy lifting, then don&amp;#x27;t be surprised when they rear up and no longer let you ride.&lt;p&gt;I still don&amp;#x27;t understand why people feel they are &lt;i&gt;entitled&lt;/i&gt; to perpetual API access.&lt;p&gt;Maybe Twitter should follow the lead that I do - those that license and use many of my APIs pay on a royalty model - they pay a certain percentage of all revenue that their platform generates. Period.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/twitter-ceo-dorsey-apologizes-to-developers-says-he-wants-to-reset-relations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Oh, so another cycle starts. Here&amp;#x27;s a note I took back earlier, around the time of the original Twitter fiasco, pasted straight from my quotes file:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * Sovereign from Mass Effect on using someone else&amp;#x27;s technology
    
    &amp;quot;Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays,
    our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths
    we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You
    exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.&amp;quot;

    Strangely, it seems to describe recent (2012&amp;#x2F;2013) situation with
    API of Twitter perfectly.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ISL</author><text>Twitter could avoid this sentiment by making a fiscally-binding statement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We have opened up our API, and have placed $5B in escrow with the Gates Foundation, who will return 70% of the investment income to Twitter. If we deny API access to developers before 2020, the Gates Foundation will keep the principal.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Someone sufficiently clever could make a similar, but perpetual, statement.</text></comment>