To be clear, Raffi is clearly articulating the situation. It's a complex thing and we can't expect to get it perfectly right the first time, so the dialogue and questions are great.
Raffi is also a much better communicator than I am :) -- Ryan Sarver @rsarver <http://twitter.com/rsarver> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Raffi's posts have made me feel a *lot* better about all of this. I > hope his comments will be reflected in some way by an 'official' message > from Twitter. It's not that I don't believe Raffi, I do, but it bothers me > that Ryan or someone hasn't yet come back to explicitly confirm Raffi's > comments (which, it should be noted, came with a disclaimer). > > -Craig > > > On 13 March 2011 11:38, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Similar situation, although Raffi's response above is slightly more >> reassuring. >> >> On Mar 13, 3:34 pm, Jef Poskanzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have a set of apps that basically just reproduces the official >> > Twitter user experience, exactly what Twitter says we should not do. >> > However, I add value by running on a platform that Twitter does not >> > support and is unlikely to ever support. I believe this should be >> > allowed and encouraged and would appreciate a statement to that >> > effect. >> > >> > Furthermore, this is probably not the only exception to the "don't >> > just reproduce Twitter" rule. Please consider that there may be >> > entire areas of innovation that you have not thought of - that's why >> > it's called innovation. >> >> -- >> 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 > -- 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
