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Twitter announced new API policies for version 1.1 of their API today. The announcement was accompanied by a diagram which IMHO was bit hard to understand at first and caused a bit of useless debate and worry on Twitter. Here’s my dumbed-down version of the diagram, or at least my understanding of it. The x axis represents who your application is for: the general public or, for lack of a better word, nerds (developers, business owners etc.) The y axis represents what your application allows those people to do: either count stuff (tweets, links etc etc.) or do stuff (tweet, search, etc etc)
Here’s Twitter’s (better) version of this:
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