Twitter Bringing Rate Limits Back to Normal
On the heels of a post this morning by Biz Stone, it appears Twitter is beginning to bring the rate limit for posts through the Twitter API back to the 70 per hour it used to be. For the last several months, Twitter has brought that limit down to only 20 requests per hour. Per […]
Read more...TalkingHeadTV Interviews Me About the Twitter Developer Dilemma
This morning Justin R. Young of TalkingHeadTV interviewed me via webcam (couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the yellow whitebalance on my webcam – I’m really not that yellow!), and asked some great questions in follow up to my article mentioning my concern on developers leaving Twitter. I think we covered a lot […]
Read more...Developers Bailing on Twitter
I’ve been following various development mailing lists lately, and I’m seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter. This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users. It all started with a conversation on the Twitter Developers’ mailing list with the subject, “Shame” by a developer named, “nath“, […]
Read more...Twitter Looking Internally to Add Groups Functionality?
Today, on the Twitter developer’s mailing list, in response to the question: “it would be cool to have Twitter groups so you could @group and d group” It was answered by one of Twitter’s Engineers: ” This is on our radar, and third party developers have already doneseveral different implementations of this feature.” This is […]
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