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Twitter Semakin Membatasi Akses Kepada Aplikasi Pihak Ketiga

Twitter lagi-lagi memberikan pengumuman yang menghebohkan pada Jumat pagi. Kali ini mereka mengumumkan bahwa aplikasi pihak ketiga akan semakin dibatasi haknya dalam berinteraksi dengan data yang tersedia di Twitter. Perubahan pada API Twitter mengharuskan aplikasi-aplikasi tersebut untuk terhubung langsung dengan Twitter, menampilkan tweet sesuai aturan Twitter, dan para pengembang tidak diperkenankan memperbanyak jumlah pengguna tanpa seizin pihak Twitter.

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Surprise! Twitter’s New API Changes Restrict Third Party Apps

Twitter has delivered another bombshell this morning by announcing that third party apps are being even more limited in its ability to connect to Twitter. Changes to Twitter’s API will require third party apps to engage directly with Twitter, conform with requirements as to how tweets are displayed, and developers will not be able to add new users to their apps once they reach a certain limit without Twitter’s permission.

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Third Party Apps in Danger as Twitter Severs Ties With LinkedIn

Just two weeks after Twitter introduced expanded tweets for brands, product team director Michael Sippey reiterated Twitter’s intentions with regards to its product and distribution of content  on the company’s developer blog. Upon reading it thoroughly it’s never been clearer that Twitter aims to control its product more so than ever before. In aiming to deliver a consistent experience, the days of third party apps seem to be numbered.

As Sippey noted in his post, Twitter’s director of platform Ryan Sarver last year fired a warning shot at third party developers to discourage them from creating applications that mimic Twitter’s own and deliver identical Twitter experience to consumers. This is simply an extension of that directive and LinkedIn is the first casualty.

At the same time, LinkedIn published a post on its own blog noting that it will no longer be deliver tweets on its network. The relationship between these two companies began in 2009 and LinkedIn users were able to display their tweets on their LinkedIn profile page. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether synchronizing your tweets to LinkedIn is a wise move, but in any case, this is no longer possible as of today.

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