[georgemcbay]

Twitter's API has historically been very good. I think at least part of the issue with Twitter and developer satisfaction is that they have spent the last year doing just about everything they could to push developers off of making full featured Twitter apps using that API short of outright banning them from doing it.

Seems to me that the problem is more an issue of the process and politics of using the API (and widespread uncertainty as to how long the full API will be available given Twitter's signaled future plans) rather than technical/documentation problems with the API itself.