In a move that ignited a full-scale war against developers – and, by extension, the users – twitter limited third-party developers to 100’000 token, severely affecting their revenues as well as features in the hopes that users will use the main twitter app. Today, twitter admits this was a mistake.
“[The API was] one of our strategic errors we had to wind down over time. It wasn’t a win/win for developers, users and the company.” – Evan Williams, co-founder
A probably reason for this strategic error is that Twitter itself had no idea what it was. People used it for all sorts of things, and it has always been dubbed as a micro-blogging social network. After so many years, Twitter has finally taken form and direction and will establish itself as real-time news platform.
With that direction, Twitter is looking to reverse its token-limit and will be reaching out to developers to enhance the service and organise the massive volume of information that is on the platform.
It will be interesting to see how twitter’s interface and functionality will change over time given this new direction.
Source: Business Insider
