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You're just making this worse. Do you think people are not going to parse this comment line by line to verify what you imply, point by point. The fact you have a job in Developer Relations and you're trying to deflect the story because it makes you look bad, instead of just owning it is not the knee-jerk reaction you should go for.

As Twitter's platform business has matured to include many businesses building billions of dollars worth of social media monitoring and other tools, we've formalized the process to becoming a Twitter Official Partner (partners.twitter.com).

Simply because you're an even bigger company now that means implicitly that you need to change your processes, perhaps you could explain the reasoning of what was going wrong, previously.