Developers and users of Twitter have reacted angrily to changes made by the social network to restrict creation of third-party applications.
Twitter unveiled some of the upcoming changes to its API that could have a drastic impact on the service’s third-party ecosystem.
Twitter is squeezing the knot around the neck of third-party Twitter apps that mimic Twitter.com and developers and users have reacted angrily to the restrictions.
An API allows different parts of a program to communicate together, as well as letting one application share content with another.
In Twitter's case, its API has allowed for the development of extremely popular third-party services like Tweetdeck, Hootsuite and Twitpic.
Any new app that wants to serve more than 100,000 users must now seek the company's explicit permission.
Apps which already have more than 100,000 users are allowed to double their user base before having to get Twitter's go-ahead to grow any further.
Source: BBC News Technology / theInformationDaily
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