Devil’s advocate on Twitter’s OAuth change – Marco.org
2. Twitter is not ours.
Twitter can do whatever they want.
It’s the simple, brutal truth. Twitter must do what’s best for Twitter. They owe us nothing.
It’s not a public good. It’s not a right. It’s a private, entirely centralized service with no meaningful competition and a massive network-effect barrier to competitive entry. Twitter has all of the power in its relationship with users and developers.
Marco nailed it.
This is a great article describing the upcoming changes to twitter. Three months ago, this would not have mattered to me, but since then I have been using twitter DMs as an IM replacement for some friends.
Just remember, not just about twitter, but any web service that you are paying NOTHING for…it is their playground, they get to make the rules and we have to abide or move on!
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