The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “In Closing Its Platform, Twitter Risks Destroying Its Community”.

Jon Mitchell says, “After attaining unlikely success as an open platform, Twitter is demanding that third-party apps show Twitter’s stream the way the company wants them to. “You need to be able to see expanded Tweets,” Product Manager Michael Sippey wrote in an announcement on Friday afternoon. He said those features make Twitter “more engaging and easier to use.” But if Twitter squeezes too hard on third-party developers, it risks damaging something more important to the company than any set of features: It risks destroying the culture that has grown up around it”.

In Closing Its Platform, Twitter Risks Destroying Its Community

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