August 18, 2012 by Bianca Consunji Like+1SharePin ItShareShortly after Twitter announced a stricter set of rules for its application programming interface (API), developers and engineers turned to platform to use the #OccupyTwitter hashtag in protest.“Twitter’s API has more rules than North Korea,” said Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.Nova Spivack, CEO of Bottlenose.com, started a Change.org petition to urge Twitter to keep its developer API ecosystem open. He said, “Twitter, what kind of bird are you becoming? Are you still that cute little bird that everyone loved, or are you becoming a scary bird of prey?”“Blind people use special third party Twitter apps,” Spivack added on Twitter. “If Twitter closes its APIs they will be cut off.”SEE ALSO: Twitter’s API Update Cuts Off Oxygen to Third-Party ClientsWhile Spivack’s fears might be overblown, it’s clear that Twitter seeks to limit the number of third-party app users by barring apps from supporting more than 100,000 users
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New Twitter Rules Spur Online Protests
