Facebook cuts off friend-finding API access to Vine

I guess karma is a bitch. I have no sympathy for Twitter as they've pulled similar moves that have screwed over third party developers as well. What goes around, comes around and it's Twitter's turn to get a taste of their own medicine.<p>This isn't a deal breaker for me using Vine, I've found it to be a really fun application I think is going to take off. and definitely compete with Instagram.

Shrug. I don't usually take Facebook's side on things, but Twitter should expect this kind of response after shutting out third party developers themselves.

I say "booooooo!" not because I'm some user-first purest, but because I think this is just a bad idea. Facebook and Twitter DON'T need to be at war. They just don't. They're different, and they always will be.<p>Twitter deserves no sympathy, but I don't think Facebook needs to be doing this, with Instagram OR to Vine.

I've never 100% understood why these social networks were so integrated. It's normal to me now, but years ago the concept of facebook.com/twitter and twitter.com/facebook would scramble the business side of my mind. Especially when I think back to how solid of a line was drawn between Myspace and Facebook

I just downloaded Vine 10 minutes ago, and assumed this was a launch bug in their app.<p>My thoughts after seeing this: wow, what a cheap shot by FB and I feel for the Vine team getting caught in this crossfire (I gather it's still their small startup team inside of Twitter).

Not the first time, Facebook cuts off almost all APIs to Wechat. At one time Wechat even cannot use the access token to get user's id for login verification. Every API returns "data:[]".

Walled garden wars 2.0. Dont let anyone become a threat in any form. Instead they both should evolve to social service providers but they rather cut off each others arms.

And, again, the people they're really hurting are the users.