In a way, the Twitter platform has come full circle. Twitter’s API grew out of its website as a means to enable outside developers to accomplish what the company, with its then-tiny and overburdened team, could not. Now that Twitter has ample resources, the matured platform is enabling the company to build the best applications in the ecosystem in-house. Going forward, it may be that the Twitter Platform primarily serves Twitter’s interests, in stark contrast to the era of API growth I was around for, in which platform development was driven almost exclusively by the needs of the developer community.
From Alex Payne’s The Very Last Thing I’ll Write About Twitter
Can you guess why this paragraph in particular got me thinking? Yes, you probably can.
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will (sorry, I went there). Does...mean that there’s no longer room for third party...
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