[somebear]

The galling thing in this, is that much of the innovation that happened on the client side was initiated by 3rd party developers. Applications like Tweetie, Birdhouse, Twitterific, etc. probably wouldn't have sprung up inside Twitter.

[bjelkeman-again]

Indeed. The most interesting Twitter client for me at the moment is Flipboard. Now they are stopping the next Flipboard from developing.

Where is my ability as a user to pay for the API and use whatever heck I want to access it?