[caiobegotti]

These folks from Twitter might suffer from a major disconnection from reality, they burned several bridges of trust over the years and now they just write a small disclaimer about them discovering the hack from this week and the new API apparently does not address issues people had with it in the past (that were used to choke 3rd-party apps). Kudos to the developers working on it directly though, I suppose it takes a lot of effort and the managers responsibilities are not yours to take home but they need to actually regain trust before anything else, no matter how fancy the API is. Some kind of "LTS" or long term contract for the API versions would be a start.

[benburleson]

Exactly. What's their goal with the new API? Will they continue to be hostile to Twitter app developers?

Years ago, they made a distinct choice to become a business/celebrity platform, and actively moved away from the utility it could have been. That move cemented my view of Twitter as a dead-end for technology.

[numpad0]

Twitter is not as profitable as they want to be, so the corporate wants user to do something monetizable, but users prefer what can’t generate revenue and don’t favor whatever that do, but Twitter is a private company so they have to do it eve if it would only result in its irrelevance, and that will lead to even less profit, then

[stefan_]

This disclaimer is hilarious, it's like some terrible catastrophe happened far far away from them. But in fact it's been days of deafening silence out of Twitter, and they are fricking ground zero!