7. Social Media Club Berlin | “Social Music

Twitter’s moves this week were particular interesting. A lot of third-party developers were unhappy. I think this is mainly a result of Twitter having sent mixed signals over the past few years. Twitter’s move into complementary areas was entirely predictable – it happens with every platform provider. The real problem is that somehow Twitter had convinced the world they were going to “let a thousand flowers bloom” – as if they were a non-profit out to save the world, or that they would invent some fantastic new business model that didn’t encroach on third-party developers. This week Twitter finally started acting like what it is: a well-financed company run by smart capitalists.
This mixed signaling has been exacerbated by the fact that Twitter has yet to figure out a business model …

Principles, not products, are really what make organizations different, unique, better.

I’m not going to go on about specific cases or certain idiotic developers. I will simply say this:

Why, if your goal is to prevent piracy, would you make it inconvenient and painful to use a legitimate copy of your product?