Twitter’s API Update Cuts Off Oxygen to Third-Party Clients
Leave a commentAugust 16, 2012 by Volamoot at Mashable!
Twitter unveiled some of the upcoming changes to version 1.1 of its API that could have a drastic impact on the service’s third-party ecosystem.
As promised, Twitter is squeezing the knot around the neck of third-party Twitter apps that mimic Twitter.com with a more stringent set of API rules.
The changes in Twitter API V 1.1 are all designed to foster “a consistent Twitter experience” and include universal endpoint authentication, per-endpoint rate-limiting and a number of crucial changes to the “Developer Rules of the Road.” It may be the latter changes that prove most troubling to the remaining collection of third-party, consumer-focused Twitter clients.
The new rules start by t…
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