Thanks, Raffi, but obviously I'm not the only one reaching these conclusions. If our interpretation is incorrect, then the policy isn't clear.
Television shows, newspaper articles, and band pages are perfect examples of places where a "Twitter client" might be useful. I could build a full-featured Twitter client around a single news site and that might be the perfect solution for that set of users. Under the new guidelines, it sounds like I'd be shutdown. On Mar 12, 6:39 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > in reading your blog post, i think you're misunderstanding what > @*rsarver*wrote. > > the API is open -- i personally love seeing all the innovation around > getting content into twitter (/1/status/update). there is a cafe in france > who's oven tweets whenever its done baking. that uses the platform to get > content in there. there was a NYU project that enabled your plants to tweet > when they needed water. that uses the platform to get content into twitter. > then there are people who match tweets to context. seeing twitter in > action with a television show, or a newspaper article, or a conference, or a > band -- that's how people really understand and get twitter. they see it > through the lens of what's happening in the world. > > what @*rsarver* said, effectively, was building a business around > *simply*rendering > /1/statuses/home_timeline was probably-not-the-best-thing-to-do. please go > still innovate. just don't bet money on simply making an API call to > grabbing a user's home_timeline and rendering it. that's thinking too > small, and @*rsarver* is telling you that. > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Shannon Whitley > <shannon.whit...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > I was hoping that Ryan was just a few weeks early for his April Fools' > > post. > > > "Don't build clients?" It sounds like a bad joke. > > > I wrote a letter to Ryan on my blog in response to this post: > > >http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2011/03/a-letter-to-rya... > > > I know you guys can't be serious about this. Stage a mutiny if you > > have to, but don't let this boneheaded decision stand. > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter, Application Serviceshttp://twitter.com/raffi -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
