The Declaration of Twitter Independence

&#62; We hold these truths to be self-evident<p>Really? Really guys? We're going to invoke the Declaration if Independence on an impotent campaign page about Twitter?<p>Just stop using Twitter. Problem solved.

I'm sorry, but this is absurd. It's not tyrany and oppression, it's Twitter's API and they set the terms they want. You agree to those terms (and to the fact that Twitter can change them at will) the exact moment you start using the API.<p>Twitter won't be affected in any way: they already said that they don't want third party clients. Developers creating apps that Twitter accepts (analytics, social media for business, etc) won't stop supporting Twitter (they would lose users, opportunities and money). Only developers who create "non-OK" apps would join this, and if we did Twitter would be happier than ever as they stopped us without any action on their part.<p>And no, I don't support Twitter API changes, but we knew that we were taking risks when developing for a closed platform.<p>EDIT: added last paragraph.

What percent of developer frustration falls under "We're making money off Twitter without paying Twitter anything and now we're upset that we can't do that anymore"?

"Fork the project on Github, and add yourself as a signer in a pull request."<p>Seriously? Just because they redesigned the profiles to look like Facebook that doesn't make the forks the new "like".

Grow up. Twitter doesn't owe you anything.

Develop for status.net then? They don't have the user base, but if you make a killer app that runs there but not on twitter, well, you'll still win. If not, it's twitters fault they will fail when all 3rd party devs get new projects.

Has anyone actually offered Twitter <i>money</i> for the API? Like, give Twitter a <i>reason</i> to allow access to their rather valuable data?

I see there are about 10 signatories. Wow. Big :-/<p>Would a better "declaration-of-independence-by-github-fork" be to encourage people to fork tentd, and install to &#60;insert free hosting service here&#62;

Please just change the heading font to something more readable!

The man who controls the press, controls the speech.<p>Twitter undeniably controls the press in this case - they can do whatever they feel like.

I think it might look better if you used a different cursive font, or even a print-press font rather than a cursive font.

App.net

I clicked for the headline but won't sign it because because it would mean I still have interest in using twitter as a developing platform and I don't.<p>I rather just ignore it and let it fade away and hope it to take all it's egotic celebrities, teenies, morning-tv-moms, smartasses, attention seekers, ads, media &#38; marketing businesses, and all the rest of waste with them, feeling good!