Comments on: Is Twitter Shooting Itself in the Foot http://www.twitterrati.com/2009/01/22/is-twitter-shooting-itself-in-the-foot/ The World of Twitter and Microblogging Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Burnman http://www.twitterrati.com/2009/01/22/is-twitter-shooting-itself-in-the-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-519 The Burnman Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:00:19 +0000 http://www.twitterrati.com/?p=400#comment-519 I have to disagree. Twitter is currently has no revenue generation model in place, so placing a restriction on the number of API calls is more than reasonable. In fact, allowing services to fire off 20,000 API calls per hour seems a fair bit more than reasonable in my book. Personally, I don't see why any "able-minded entrepreneur" would want to build an application around Twitter which would need to hit the API more than 20,000 times per hour. If one truly needs that level (or higher) of access to the API, perhaps it is time to look into developing a whole platform around the application, rather than hijacking someone else's bandwidth and delivery system. Until Twitter is charging for access to either the service or the API, I don't see how we can reasonably set expectations for an advertising-free service we get to use at no cost whatsoever. I have to disagree. Twitter is currently has no revenue generation model in place, so placing a restriction on the number of API calls is more than reasonable. In fact, allowing services to fire off 20,000 API calls per hour seems a fair bit more than reasonable in my book. Personally, I don't see why any "able-minded entrepreneur" would want to build an application around Twitter which would need to hit the API more than 20,000 times per hour. If one truly needs that level (or higher) of access to the API, perhaps it is time to look into developing a whole platform around the application, rather than hijacking someone else's bandwidth and delivery system.

Until Twitter is charging for access to either the service or the API, I don't see how we can reasonably set expectations for an advertising-free service we get to use at no cost whatsoever.

]]> By: 140Char » What’s happening with applications on Twitter? http://www.twitterrati.com/2009/01/22/is-twitter-shooting-itself-in-the-foot/comment-page-1/#comment-516 140Char » What’s happening with applications on Twitter? Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:27:32 +0000 http://www.twitterrati.com/?p=400#comment-516 [...] of how many calls are average, so take a look at Jesse Stay’s thoughts on the SocialToo blog, Mark Evans at Twitterati, or SocialToo advisor Louis Gray (Who very kindly recommended and linked to 140char [...] [...] of how many calls are average, so take a look at Jesse Stay’s thoughts on the SocialToo blog, Mark Evans at Twitterati, or SocialToo advisor Louis Gray (Who very kindly recommended and linked to 140char [...]

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