In a recent announcement from Twitter’s Product Manager, Ryan Sarver, the micro-blogging company has stated that there are enough unofficial Twitter clients available and that developers don’t need to bring anymore new ones into the market. Reasons for this new change in mindset is due to the fact that third-party clients are often confusing for new users, and might not provide the complete Twitter experience that they want everybody to have. They also included issues such as clients breaking their Terms of Service, including privacy policies. However, they encourage developers to create value-added content services like Foursqure/Instagram and other apps that complement Twitter instead of attempt to replace its official client (that’s now available on most mobile platforms). I guess it would be safe to say that there wouldn’t be a need for third party clients if the official one could do everything users were looking for. But for Twitter to tell developers “no” to creating new Twitter clients seems a bit harsh. After all, nobody is being forced to use third party clients, and it looks like they want everybody to use their official client. How many of you prefer the official Twitter app to a third party option?
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