On: Why IFTTT Removing Twitter Triggers is A Warning For Developers

[tbeseda]

It's not a warning for developers. We know Twitter is sketchy territory.

This is a warning to users. A service that emulates programming must exclude Twitter's API is the best way to explain to an average user why Twitter's new policies suck.

[rhizome → tbeseda]

We're still going to get an orgy of he-said-she-said Techcrunch and TNW IFTTT posts over the next 12-36 hours, longer if Twitter actually comments on this.

[krickle → rhizome]

Protip: if you are interested in news that actually matters over blogspam, don't read Techcrunch et al.

[rhizome → krickle]

And I don't. Well OK, maybe once in a while, but I got off the TC train 'round about the "Arrington (supposedly) got spit on!" era.