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New Twitter Policies Put the Kibosh On Mashup Services
dburr writes "If This Then That (IFTTT) is a web mashup service that lets you connect together multiple services in unique and powerful ways. For example, you can automatically bookmark Favorited tweets using a social bookmarking service such as Delicious. Or even notify you by SMS when your server goes down. Unfortunately, Twitter has just announced policy changes that will in effect neuter it. Starting next Thursday, August 27, IFTTT will be disabling all Twitter "triggers" (the real power of IFTTT and its defining feature). (You will still be able to post Tweets through IFTTT) This has upset many long time Twitter users and members of the technorati. I have created a petition in a valiant (and perhaps vain) attempt to express our displeasure at their decision."
That's sure to stop them.
I'm not sure what Twitter thinks it is doing, but what it is doing is alienating a wide variety of people. They've stopped development on the Mac desktop client, destroy the iPad client, neutered third-party clients, prohibitted several forms of useful integration, and the list goes on.
A fucking online petition is not valiant
How many lattes does one have to drink to become a member of the technorati?
Long past time for someone to come up with a Twitter replacement.
Date is wrong or this story is a month late. TFA says "Starting next Thurs, Sept 27, 2012". Also August 27, 2012 was a Monday.
technorati ? more like just a bunch of twats whining about their inane life that nobody cares about
And yet another case in which a proprietary, fully centralized non-open service bites its users (well, at least some of them) in the ass. How many clues do people need before they understand that decentralized services using open standards at least allow you, the user, the option to switch provider when the current one messes up? (Or even host it yourself)
1) Why is this front page? This is the result of the API and policy changes that twitter announced what, a month ago? two months?
2) Yeah. An online petition. That'll learn 'em.
I'm sure that, for the proper amount of cash, Twitter will do your bidding.
Free services are swell, but whining when you're getting what you pay for seems specious.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
All 5 of them have signed the petition (assuming it wasn't signed by the owners/developers).
Go away, please.
yes, that's right. they should just do pseudo browsers.
anyhow, twitter is just fucking itself with all this. you'd think myfiasco would have taught them something.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Will this mashup change stop me being spammed by Favstar or w/e the fuck its called? If so then GOOD.
Users thing up new ways to make Twitter useful and Twitter management keep coming up with new bans. Twitter needs to recognise that their users will do far better at building their business then some tyrannical beancounter at corporate HQ will. If Twitter don't get the message, they will end up driving users to other platforms and Twitter will end up another Myspace.
Homework for the reader: Rewrite that in 140 characters.
Like this maybe?
http://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2002/03/12
It's an internet cliche, but still applicable:
And Nothing Of Value Was Lost
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Valiant?
First time shame on you, second time... can't be fooled again!
I'm not familiar with http://technorati.com/
Why will it's members be upset?
Or is there some web 2.0 BS meaning to this word that I'm not getting?
Want to really send a message to Twitter against this policy? Stop using Twitter.
If your life depends on Twitter, you don't have one.
If your life depends on Facebook, Government Money, or Sports, you don't have one either.
In the industrialized world, whose life doesn't depend on infrastructure paid for with taxpayer money?
Doesn't WordPress.com implement the Twitter API too?
I was using Twitter pretty actively for a few years. It never was a great service, but it was simple, widely used, and had a lot of useful add-ons. But function after function has disappeared, making Twitter pretty much useless for me. So I quit.
I really have no problem with this. Mashup services just ride on the back of the people who do the hard work. Besides, these kinds of services are mostly used by geek and geek press. All the Silicon Valley rags will wag their tongues for a bit and go back to their lattes.
What I do have a problem with is the general move towards Twitter circling its wagons, and signalling that all unofficial Twitter clients will eventually be cut off. This is just a dumb move. Clients like Tweetbot will always offer more innovation because the guys at Twitter have not shown they care about their product or have the ability to really innovate. They're finally trying to figure out how to make money from Twitter, but so far it's just fumbling around. They'd be better off at least taking a cut of the profits from all 3rd-party Twitter services/clients that charge money.
Call me a Mennonite, bit I find the constant push to link every fucking thing with every other fucking thing to be disconcerting, and I am predisposed to glady accept any resistance to the trend to turn everything on the web into Facebook. You Tube wants our real names now. It's never going to end. Am I being irrational? I don't know. The repercussions of every step toward less anonymity and more interconnectivity are impossible to gauge, but for the companies and their business model, the more of our information they can make flow, the better. To see somebody, for whatever reason, make the other choice is kind of represhing. Convenience is nice, but am I really seeing people all up in arms about having to create their own bookmarks? Am I missing something here?
Forget the petition - start a 'new twitter (twatter?) service that doesn't block useful features -
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
Yes, yes, it's easy to mock online petitions and their traditional worthlessness, but THIS petition has been written by a member of the "technorati," so maybe it has a chance.
God Speed, Brave Technoratus! Make Us Proud!!
Seriously, 90 people signed your petition and it has been on /.
One feather after another, it's plucking off the the open, interconnected, mashable features that made it popular.
When it's finished doing this, it may be in a great place to knock revenues out of all ten remaining users.
If the purpose is to receive or send messages for personal use, then someone can use another microblogging service, like identi.ca.
Wouldn't that work?