Dan GillmorJan 18, 2023
The Twitter API lockout of third-party apps is only the latest reminder of centralization's most important rule: The platform owner has the right to capriciously wreck the businesses of people who accepted the platform's invitation to run a business on the platform.
Show threadJon (now at neuromatch.social)

@dangillmor Like this reminder from 2015 ... https://www.infoworld.com/article/2908869/twitters-firehose-shut-off-is-the-newest-hazard-of-the-api-economy.html

And 2012 ... https://thenextweb.com/news/developers-bracing-themselves-for-twitter-api-retrictions-call-todays-post-ominous

The shut-off of Twitter's firehose is a hazard of the API economy

Twitter wants to sell access to its data directly via its own API set, but some see this as an innovation-destroying idea

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Jan 18, 2023 at 2:23amWeb