<story><title>What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”&lt;p&gt;Exactly, that&apos;s precisely the message they wanted you to have.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swombat</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Emphasis on &quot;supposed&quot;. It doesn&apos;t always do it, and definitely never to everyone&apos;s taste. Hence the custom clients.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;By now I doubt anyone is truly surprised, but it&apos;s disappointing nevertheless. Twitter&apos;s success is partly built on the explosion of Twitter clients that allowed Twitter to evolve faster than its dev team could follow (hence all the scaling issues). Then they bought a few players in the Twitter client market. And now they&apos;ve strangled all the ones that remained in that market.&lt;p&gt;So basically, Twitter now has an obvious and provable history of leaving things open, deciding that thriving third-party market X is nice, stepping into it themselves, and killing everyone else there.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s not a reputation I&apos;d like to have for my business, when it is a piece of underlying infrastructure that depends on others to make it thrive.&lt;p&gt;Anyone starting a business from today onwards and having any critical dependency or reliance on Twitter is insane.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hnriot</author><text>*The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: “Don’t build anything for Twitter.”&lt;p&gt;Exactly, that&apos;s precisely the message they wanted you to have.&lt;p&gt;What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8? This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t get anyone is surprised, it&apos;s Twitter&apos;s ecosystem and if you&apos;re duplicating their functionality then it&apos;s perfectly reasonable of them to not make any special exemption. If you wrote a client that exposed twitter to new markets or something that added value to Twitter then they&apos;d likely give you a higher limit, but that&apos;s not the case...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;#62; What&apos;s wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8&lt;p&gt;That it&apos;s a terrible experience on many fronts, that it&apos;s slow as molasses (especially on mobile networks), that composition sucks, that multiuser blows, that it&apos;s got no idea where you left off and doesn&apos;t care, etc...?&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.&lt;p&gt;Crappy?</text></comment>