Twitter Discards Client UI Community

Antique Geekmeister writes "Twitter has just decided to discard the community of developers who've created interesting and innovative UI applications. The announcement shows that they intend to switch from the 'bazaar' model of development to the 'cathedral,' with much tighter control of user interfaces for 'security' and 'consistency.'"

Wait, Twitter has a community?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm pretty sure that there's no real value to Twitter, so why would it have a community?

Twitter's End Game

[dagamer34]

What this really means is that Twitter doesn't want users to have clients that outright refuse to display Promoted Tweets or things like the #dickbar. Seems they are all about the money now...

Applefied

[drb226]

This strange and sometimes lucrative process is known as "Applefication".

Did they really think this through?

[Jugalator]

The client variety for all tastes is what seems to have in part made Twitter so big.

It has unusually diverse clients, and has become a strong platform. And now they throw the "platform" part out to just make it a grey, boring old school software application with no reach for varying interests and usage scenarios in their community?

OK, well... It's their choice of course. But good job in trying to keep the extremely high popularity up. That's all I can say...

I think they'll need our best wishes.

Twitter was where many companies work their butts off to be. A company with their own client, but also a rich ecosystem of clients. Apparently, some don't like that, and *willingly* deconstruct their achievements.

Re:Twitter's End Game

[MrEricSir]

Considering how much money they've made up until this point, that's hardly surprising.