Distant Early Warning System

“The issue, says Sarver, is consistency.  Twitter users need to be able to experience the service in a uniform manner.”

One developer’s take on Twitter’s new roadmap:

“…I am so happy I cut the cord with Twitter long before they got to this point. I’m pretty far along in doing a new user interface for microblogging, one without many of Twitter’s limits.”

Twitter, like Facebook, has had legal issues with its privacy policy.  Twitter’s crack down was preceded by a settlement with the FTC:

“Under the terms of the settlement, Twitter will be barred for 20 years from misleading users about the extent to which it protects the security, privacy, and confidentiality of nonpublic consumer information…”

Twitter cracked down on third-party clients in response to what is essentially an internal issue.  More importantly, this chain of events was sparked by a government agency—for better and worse.