I mean, I understand the engineer part of me that says hey, it's a widely used public API, don't shut it down all at once you dick.
But there is another part of me that wonders if all these folks who say "I have 100k tweets and I'll only use the unofficial clients" aren't betraying more than they think: All the twitterati pro-users who schedule tweets daily... Are they good for the platform? I'd lean towards a soft "maybe?" but that's only intuition and nothing else. It's entirely possible that destroying as much of the automation abilities of more powerful clients is -exactly- what would benefit twitter the most.
Reminds me of a game I played years ago and they made a minor "tweak" to the code and a bunch of plugin mods no longer worked. Yes Turbine- Asheron's Call was much better with the third-party plug ins, but I still was playing AC even with my fancy UI on top of it. But funny when that change was made all of the cheaters that would set their bots to go camp spawns disappeared and the game got that much better. History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.
(Now release AC to the public so I can go back to Eastham)
But there is another part of me that wonders if all these folks who say "I have 100k tweets and I'll only use the unofficial clients" aren't betraying more than they think: All the twitterati pro-users who schedule tweets daily... Are they good for the platform? I'd lean towards a soft "maybe?" but that's only intuition and nothing else. It's entirely possible that destroying as much of the automation abilities of more powerful clients is -exactly- what would benefit twitter the most.