Twitter’s Tech Pro Problem: Where Do We Go From Here? Nate Swanner, September 7, 2018 4 min read Twitter has issues. After killing an API for popular third-party clients such as TweetBot and Twitteriffic, Twitter is...
Twitter Now Using ‘Spam’ to Put Devs in a Corner Nate Swanner, July 24, 2018 6 min read Twitter is revamping its developer registration portal, which will make it much more difficult to write an app that...
Twitter Is Taking One Final, Stupid Swipe at Developers Nate Swanner, May 18, 2018 7 min read Twitter, helmed by a CEO who recently intimated developers don’t matter to the platform, is making further API...
Twitter Alters API Program, Asks Devs to Pay Nate Swanner, April 7, 2017 7 min read Twitter Twitter's long, twisted history with developers just took another strange turn. The company has changed its...
Twitter May Open Live Video API: Will It Matter? Nate Swanner, March 17, 2017 6 min read Twitter According to a report from The Information, Twitter is about to open its live-streaming API up to media...
Can Snapchat Prosper Without a Developer API? Nick Kolakowski, February 13, 2017 4 min read If you want a platform to scale, open it up to third-party developers. That’s been a guiding principle for the past...
Twitter CEO Suggests Developers “Did Not Matter” Nate Swanner, February 10, 2017 10 min read Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Twitter (still) has monetization issues. In its most recent earnings call, the company again...
How Tech Responded to Trump’s Immigration Ban Nate Swanner, January 30, 2017 8 min read Google HQ in Mountain View, CA On January 27, President Trump signed an executive order that banned citizens from...
Twitter Sells Fabric to Google in Farewell to Devs Nate Swanner, January 19, 2017 4 min read Google Fabric via Twitter In a move that surpised just about everyone, Twitter has sold its developer-facing suite of...
How Americans Use Social Media at Work Nick Kolakowski, June 23, 2016 2 min read If you’re a tech pro who works with social media—whether as a developer, a manager, or a marketing expert of some...
