I can see no reason for Twitter to do this other than to put all other Twitter clients at a disadvantage. I've been wondering for quite a while why I should use Twitter.
I guess you don't really care about user experience... only control. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
