To Twitter: Stop Replying on Developers Building Features using Your API. Take Control of Your Own Destiny
Twitter is famous for its openness on its API and have a lot of tools built by 3rd party developers. But many 3rd-party tools are built/abused to add automated spammy tweets, robots to Twitter.
Last month, Twitter engineer Alex Payne tweeted “If you had some of the nifty site features that we Twitter employees have, you might not want to use a desktop client. (You will soon.)"
I'd love to see the niffy site features! Twitter's web UI is just way too simple. Example: Where can I follow conversations(aka: thread of retweets, replies) on a tweet?
Twitter should surely use its $160 million funding to beautify its web presentation and blow away all the 3rd-party clients(whoever builds its entire business model on features that are core to Twitter should have seen this day coming).
Just stop relying on 3rd-party developers to make things happen for you, Twitter. It's not like that you don't have money.
How come we don't see Facebook & Google completely open up its API? Cause they need to control the experiences and monetize. Imaging if Google opens up its search API and have no control of how its search ads are displayed and no idea about their actual impressions and CTR?
Please, give us the best possible experiences on Twitter.com.
