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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Twitter Changes Incite Online Protests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
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Twitter Changes Incite Online Protests
http://j.mp/TKEU4w (New York Times)
Twitter's new rules for third-party developers have incited an online
uproar. After the company imposed stricter rules for its application
programming interface, or A.P.I., on Thursday, engineers and
developers picked up their virtual pitchforks and took to Twitter and
blogs to decry what some described as a "bait and switch." "Twitter
looks a lot like the big star who forgot about all the little guys
that helped it get to the top," Rafe Colburn, an engineer at Etsy,
wrote in a blog post.
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Great shot of the "Frankenstein" torches and pitchfork crowd heading
for the old windmill (accompanying this story!)
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