Twitter has published new rules for third-party developers.

The company Twitter recently reported unexpected news , or rather, it is not even news, but new rules for third-party developers. According to these rules, developers can no longer create new client programs to work with the service. In addition, those that exist will be evaluated according to new criteria, and if something goes wrong, the support of the “objectionable” client under Twitter can also be discontinued. Naturally, the developers are unhappy with this decision, rightly arguing their objections that it was third-party clients that made the service so popular.

According to the service management, Twitter needs to create and develop a “developer ecosystem”, which will focus not only on releasing new versions of client programs for Twitter, but also on improving the reliability of its software and improving the quality of existing customers. As for the latter, the administration will check existing customers for compliance with the new rules, check how safe it is for the user to work with such software, how carefully the personal data of users is protected.
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Service management stated that the new rules were introduced to limit the fragmentation of the service and strengthen control over this process. It is stated that developers should provide users with the same conditions for working with client software.

One of the developers, dissatisfied with the innovations, said that all these beautiful and smooth phrases can be understood as “Thank you for creating applications that attracted many users to the service. Thank you for making the service stable. Thank you for all this, but we no longer need you. Goodbye".

The developers believe that such a move by the Twitter administration is caused by the desire to monetize the service - and after all, Twitter already has several official clients, for the main mobile platforms iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7. It seems that third-party developers will be forced to use the rules imposed for example, implement something like a Quick Bar from an official client in your apps, where hot topics are broadcast, plus ads (promoted tweets).

In general, the situation is difficult, so we will wait for further developments. We stock up on popcorn - because the new actions of the Twitter leadership have not yet been commented on by major market players, like Google.

Via eweek