Michael Sippey, director of consumer products at the San Francisco company, began by talking about Twitter's recent push into "expanded tweets" - allowing certain developers and publishers a way to include more information in their tweets than the standard 140 characters will allow. Related to that, we've already begun to more thoroughly enforce our Developer Rules of the Road with partners, for example with branding, and in the coming weeks, we will be introducing stricter guidelines around how the Twitter API is used. An API, for the uninitiated, is an application programming interface - a way for apps and online services to talk to each other. Which is a shame - because as it so happens, "client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience" are some of my favorite apps ever. Among many innovations, Tweetie invented the concept of "pulling" down on the timeline to refresh it - a gesture that quickly made its way into countless other apps. Taken together, those touches make Twitter eminently more useful to me, and thousands of others. [...] there are dozens of other Twitter clients, each with bells and whistles of their own, that those apps' users find indispensable. [...] again, whom do you trust more to build a beautiful mobile showcase for those new features - a company like Tapbots, or the company that turned turned Tweetie into the current version of Twitter for iPhone? The prospect of third-party apps dying a sudden death has been met with generalized panic around geekier corners of the Internet.
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