I guess what I would like to know is since I'm a hobbyist, am I going to get my token revoked just because I write a client that is just for my use to better my skills in learning a specific programming language and share with others things I've learned.
-Dustin This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Rich <rhyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Raffi > > So if I'm reading what you wrote correctly, simple clients that just > display a timeline, post etc are thinking too small and there is no > business there, something I can agree with. > > However many of us have, what I'd call a value added client. Sure we > have the basics of a client, but we have what I'd like to think are > added value services such as tweet scheduling, augmented reality of > tweeters around you, user streams, draft management, and so much more. > Are we to think that these are actually going to be fine for the time > being, so long as obviously we comply with the ToS. > > What you guys seem to be saying though is don't build clients because > it won't make money, but some people seem to fail to grasp some of us > develop apps like this because we enjoy it... it's a hobby and a > passion and that doesn't always involve tons of profit. Services such > as Seesmic started out in the simple Client business, remember Twhirl, > etc. Sure they grew into something enterprise, but most of us start > out at the bottom and with the basics. > > Richard > > On Mar 13, 2:39 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > in reading your blog post, i think you're misunderstanding what > > @*rsarver*wrote. > > > > the API is open -- i personally love seeing all the innovation around > > getting content into twitter (/1/status/update). there is a cafe in > france > > who's oven tweets whenever its done baking. that uses the platform to > get > > content in there. there was a NYU project that enabled your plants to > tweet > > when they needed water. that uses the platform to get content into > twitter. > > then there are people who match tweets to context. seeing twitter in > > action with a television show, or a newspaper article, or a conference, > or a > > band -- that's how people really understand and get twitter. they see it > > through the lens of what's happening in the world. > > > > what @*rsarver* said, effectively, was building a business around > > *simply*rendering > > /1/statuses/home_timeline was probably-not-the-best-thing-to-do. please > go > > still innovate. just don't bet money on simply making an API call to > > grabbing a user's home_timeline and rendering it. that's thinking too > > small, and @*rsarver* is telling you that. > > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Shannon Whitley > > <shannon.whit...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > I was hoping that Ryan was just a few weeks early for his April Fools' > > > post. > > > > > "Don't build clients?" It sounds like a bad joke. > > > > > I wrote a letter to Ryan on my blog in response to this post: > > > > >http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/index.php/2011/03/a-letter-to-rya. > .. > > > > > I know you guys can't be serious about this. Stage a mutiny if you > > > have to, but don't let this boneheaded decision stand. > > > > -- > > Raffi Krikorian > > Twitter, Application Serviceshttp://twitter.com/raffi > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
