Twitter today announced major changes; affecting mainly external app developers will be affected. Third-party apps can grow to maximum users, which depends on the current number. Then the lock on it and they may not accept new users. Applications that grow to more than 100,000 users now have to work directly with Twitter. Existing apps that are more than 100,000 users, may grow by 200 percent, but then follows a user stop.
There are also new guidelines for authentication and certification for developers who want to make external apps. All these new measures will not be happy that your favorite Twitter apps like Twit terrific Tweetbot and will be closed, but the influx of new users is often difficult. The number of allowed API calls will also change: from 350 per hour for multiple endpoints to 60 per hour per endpoint. This may be more favorable for some people and others do worse.
The disadvantage for external appmakers that they already know how far they can grow. This threatens the extinction of certain apps: apps such as Tweetbot have reached their maximum, there is no reason to Tweetbot paid app even more to offer in the App Store. There may after all not new users. It is also less interesting to develop new features, you win there is still no new users with it. "In fact, Twitter has just told all developers exactly how much money they could ever earn in paid Twitter app. The future of Twitter lies with the official apps “concludes Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web.
Twitter CEO Michael Sippey put in an extensive blog post from what kind of applications are undesirable. Apps on the left quadrant below are darlings of Twitter. The apps on the right would rather see them disappear. This includes traditional Twitter clients and syndicators. Two Twitter apps that Sippey especially called his Tweetbot and Echofon:
That measures were to come, was two months ago to provide. Twitter announced that they would deal stricter with outside parties. They ended the partnership with LinkedIn, which from that moment no more tweets on the website showed. Instead they chose partners like Nike and New York Times to collaborate on Twitter Cards. The changes are introduced in the coming weeks, simultaneously with Twitter API 1.1.
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