Subject
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Platform Business
Bookmarks
Twitter's Descent into the Extractive — DHH / 37signals
DHH's 2012 essay on Twitter's shift from open ecosystem to extractive platform — killing third-party clients, tightening API access, and prioritizing ad revenue over developer relationships. A clear-eyed early diagnosis of what became a pattern across social platforms.
Twitter Is Pivoting — Dalton Caldwell
Dalton Caldwell's 2012 analysis of Twitter's strategic pivot from developer platform to media company — written by the founder of App.net, which he built specifically as a paid, developer-friendly Twitter alternative after Twitter made its direction clear.