With New API, Twitter Attempts to Kill Autofollow Apps
Just this last week Twitter retired their long-lived 1.0 API for developers. This API was the first “versioned” release, a breath of fresh air in many ways for developers that were tired of API updates breaking their code. On June 11th, Twitter forced all devs to upgrade to their 1.1 API however, breaking many developers’ […]
Read more...The New Twitter and Why Im Purging All 30,000 of My Friends
This has been done many times before and I’ve resisted it for years now. The fact is, auto-follow is a core service to my company, SocialToo, so choosing, as a user, to move away from such is a big deal. We invented auto-follow. It’s a great idea because it focuses on relationships. The fact is, […]
Read more...The Real Solution to Fix the "Twitter Game"
Twitter has been initiating a crackdown of sorts on sites that offer “automated unfollow” services such as my own SocialToo.com. Since we announced we were removing it on SocialToo, at least 3 other services have also been asked to remove the functionality, which enables people to automatically unfollow others that unfollow them on Twitter. I […]
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