All the twats and twits have come together to announce that they've decided there are not enough resources to sustain themselves behind their walled garden (aka, they've announced a new API). In social media speak this is equivalent to admitting that their business model is failing and they are trying to lure developers into giving them free new ideas and free code, because the shit they came up with themselves sucks.
Social media companies do not "double down on developers" they harvest and sell user data to advertisers. When they fail at doing so, they try and speed up the pace of the troon train because it's not making the investors happy.
They'll get devs onboard alright. Nobody with more than 4 years in the industry though. It wasn't that long ago that Twitter hung out their API and then reeled it back in again, fucking over all the third-party clients. The only people who won't remember that are codemonkeys and new grads.
I give it even money if they are planning on doing the exact same thing again. If not, they must be really desperate.
They'll get devs onboard alright. Nobody with more than 4 years in the industry though. It wasn't that long ago that Twitter hung out their API and then reeled it back in again, fucking over all the third-party clients. The only people who won't remember that are codemonkeys and new grads.
I give it even money if they are planning on doing the exact same thing again. If not, they must be really desperate.
That has been the most common response to this article I've seen on places like Slashdot, Hackernews, etc. "I wrote a thing for Twitter years ago and Twitter killed it, I will never type a line of code for the Twitter SDK ever again, they can fuck off and rot in their own mediocrity."
They'll get devs onboard alright. Nobody with more than 4 years in the industry though. It wasn't that long ago that Twitter hung out their API and then reeled it back in again, fucking over all the third-party clients. The only people who won't remember that are codemonkeys and new grads.
Or people only looking to make a quick buck and who will therefore limit their investment in the effort. Which is also not the sorts of people we assume they want, or rather the faction that's currently got enough power to create and promote a new API.
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