Twitter tightens control over third party apps

Under Twitter's new rules, independent software developers, who create new Twitter apps, will only be allowed to have a maximum of 100,000 users.

WELLINGTON: Microblogging platform Twitter has announced new restrictions to regulate users accessing its service and strictly prohibits independent software developers from creating apps for the website.
While the move is not expected to immediately affect how current Twitter users across the world access the service, the new rules will likely nudge new users toward Twitter's own apps, while slowly ushering the demise of popular third-party clients like Tweetbot, Stuffz.co.nz reports.
Under its new rules, independent software developers who create new Twitter apps will only be allowed to have a maximum of 100,000 users.
Twitter believes it can provide more interactive content, if the vast majority of its users use officially sanctioned programmes to log into the social site.
The new guidelines, which were published on Twitter's blog, reportedly attracted a torrent of criticism from "power-users" and software developers, the report said.
Twitter, which has been seeking greater control of its platform as it looks to grow into a digital media powerhouse sustained by advertising revenues, has deeply divided Silicon Valley's tech circles with its strategy, it added.