Fascinating thoughts surrounding how Twitter is slowly taking over well-adopted apps and closing them down as they release their own competing clients.
All this is theoretical, but what isn’t is that today Twitter pulled the switch on two high volume Twitter clients, UberTwitter, the leading Blackberry Twitter client, and Twidroyd, which was the leading client on Android until Twitter shipped their own.
Too bad, if it’s true. That means that all those developers who wanted to make a living (or who were) will need to go find another API to crawl.
Stacey L Barr says
I’m siding with Twitter on this one. The public declaration they made in the email to (apparently) every registered Twitter account holder’s email made it very clear that Uber was banned for repeated failure to comply with their privacy terms. It even mentioned that this has been an ongoing issue with their developers for several months, including releasing versions of the app that used registered trademarks of Twitter. Unless there is a REALLY significant part of this story untold, it’s pretty clear to me that Twitter was in the right for what they did.