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Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO
An anonymous reader writes: This month Twitter is closing down the JSON endpoint API which thousands of third-party software and plugin developers have depended upon for years. The alternative Rest API offers data which is aggregated or limited in other ways, whilst the full-featured share data offered by Gnip (purchased last year by Twitter) can cost developers thousands per month to access — in one case up to £20,000 a month. The general objective seems to be to either drive users back to the core Twitter interface where they can be monetized via the social network's advertising, or to regain lost advertising by converting open source data — currently utilized a lot in scientific research — into premium information, offering the possibility for well-funded organizations to gain reputations as Twitter barometers without ever needing to expose the expensive, accurate share figures. The company also announced today that co-founder Jack Dorsey would be the new CEO.
It's kind of like bands.
School > Bars > Halls > Your mom has heard of them > Greatest Hits released > Stadiums > She likes them > Lamer than Lame Jock McLame.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Shut down the CEO and name a new JSON API?
Dunno - seems like the latter happens every time Oracle coughs up a new version of JRE... can't argue with the former, though.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?