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For Twitter-Owned Apps and Sites, a Cacophony of Confusion

Did Twitter just cut off its entire face to spite its nose? On Friday, the company put up eviction notices for third-party apps that mimic tools and services that Twitter provides. But some of those apps are far superior to Twitter's offerings.

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The Future Of Twitter Is Nothing You've Seen Before

Unless you are a developer or a serious web nerd, you probably didn't realize there's a minor revolt happening against Twitter right now, the result of two separate but inter-related issues: The reiterated warning to developers not to build Twitter apps that "that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience" - in other words any Twitter app you've used other than the official Twitter app, like Tweetbot or Twitterific - paired with an increasingly restrictive API.

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