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Twitter Discards Client UI Community

Posted by Soulskill on from the pack-your-junk dept.

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.'"

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  1. Twitter's End Game by dagamer34 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...