Twitter Restricts Client Developers

Posted by Soulskill on Friday August 17, 2012 @12:45AM from the if-only-i-could-describe-this-with-some-sort-of-whale dept.

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."

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Time for a boycott! by larry+bagina · 2012-08-17 00:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

unfortunately, I don't use twitter, so I can't stop using twitter.
Will slashdot get rid of all the "tweet this" icons?

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1. Re:Time for a boycott! by Megane · 2012-08-17 01:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  What icons? I ad-blocked those icons a long time ago. I just now noticed that my cursor doesn't even give me the finger anymore as I scrub over where those icons used to be (it did when they first added that crap). I've also ad-blocked that annoying "sharethis" or whatever it is that web sites include to create a popup with like 20 hipster social crap sharing icons. Ad-block isn't just for ads. (Though you could justifiably call all those icons a form of advertisement.)
  
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