Twitter Restricts Client Developers

New submitter atsabig10fo writes "Twitter has finally released the hinted-at changes to their API, which include limiting the number of users for third party clients, per-endpoint rate limiting, and restrictions on how tweets can be displayed and posted. Twitter's Michael Sippey wrote, 'One of the key things we've learned over the past few years is that when developers begin to demand an increasingly high volume of API calls, we can guide them toward areas of value for users and their businesses. To that end, and similar to some other companies, we will require you to work with us directly if you believe your application will need more than one million individual user tokens.' Third party app developers are certainly going to be sweating these changes, and it puts the future of new development in question."

Why not make several applications?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets say you want to go over 100,000 users. Your application name is: Twitterextender. Just make Twitterextenderblack, Twitterextenderplus, SuperTwitterextender, etc etc. Make a new version for every 100,000 users you hit. Would this get around the arbitrary limit? They are different aps if you change the color and/or some trivial functionality.

RIP Twitter, 2006-2012

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not sure why someone hasn't built a Twitter clone that just runs on top of IRC. Twitter is in many ways web IRC already.

Stopping Spam?

[hazzey]

It sounds like this might be in response to all of the reports of massive amounts of spam accounts: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/14/1851243/inside-the-real-economy-behind-fake-twitter-followers [slashdot.org] This might be one way to reduce the ease that the spam-twitter-herders work while at the same time providing a bit of income.

Re:Why not make several applications?

[middlemen]

Make a new version for every 100,000 users you hit.
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They are different aps if you change the color and/or some trivial functionality.

Finally a logical reasoning why Microsoft has multiple versions of Windows!