Via Business Insider:
Since its earliest days, Twitter has depended on the kindness of strangers. Companies like Yahoo and LinkedIn lent a hand when it was just a fledgling startup, with little to its name but its unrealized potential.
But now that it's grown up into a position of strength, with 200 million users, Twitter doesn't seem as kind.
Points:
- “Twitter has changed the rules for developers, and it restricts what apps that "attempt to replicate Twitter's core user experience" can do. It did this because it decided it's better to maintain tight control over how people access tweets.”
- “Twitter seems to be sending a hardball message: Sell to us, or we'll cut you off. Have some sympathy for Twitter: That's a tactic its leaders learned the hard way, first-hand.”
- “Its abrupt termination of a long-term partnership with LinkedIn in June presaged its hard stance with Tumblr and Instagram.”
- “The bottom line: If you want to partner with Twitter, you can send your content its way. If you want to use Twitter's content, you'd best step carefully.”
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