Snap, Facebook, Twitter Software Engineers: Who Makes the Most? Nick Kolakowski, August 7, 2019 4 min read Working for a social-media giant might not have the luster it once did, thanks to a series of escalating crises,...
Weekend Roundup: Tanks, Taxis, Twitter, Terrible Services, and Trouble Nate Swanner, June 14, 2019 6 min read Hey, wanna talk about a whole bunch of weird tech stuff, like tanks, and Twitter, and taxis that float, and trouble...
Tech Pros Split on Their Employers’ Political Acceptance Nick Kolakowski, November 6, 2018 3 min read Election Day is here! And you know what that means: lots of people fighting over politics (and voting,...
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...
