The Next Web:
Twitter’s success has long been intertwined with the independent developers that have chosen to use the platform. The third-party ecosystem made Twitter what it is in the most literal fashion possible.
That’s why there has been some consternation over a post on Twitter’s developer blog today. The gist of the posts was that Twitter was cracking down on how third parties were using its APIs.
Along with GigaOM’s “Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg”, there is growing concern the folks at Twitter are doing what is best for their short term economic interests – and those actions may kill the service in the long term.
I’m eagerly awaiting a Twitter clone that survives on actual registration fees.
Short term planning – smells of VCs and IPO preparation to me.
This is starting to smell like a idiotic catastrophe of Netflix/Qwickster proportion.