Twitter Founder Admits Shutting Down API Was Wrong
Co-founder of Twitter, and until recently, the CEO of the corporation, Jack Dorsey was very active on the social network. It mainly involved the future of the web as we know it, many people have termed it as Web3. Many tools for this are already under development. The Opera browser has begun integrating the Ethereum scaling platform, and Jack Dorsey has admitted to being sceptical about a major promise made.
Web 2.0 is more centralized for large social networks and platforms, and Web3 plans on being more decentralized compared to web 2.0, an idea that has gained the criticism of the former director. He claims that Web3 is not owned by them, they are venture investors who act as owners of many emerging decentralized platforms.
A fierce dispute began between various parties. Jack Dorsey advocates that the power should be in the people’s hands and for having decentralized positions. Twitter is also levelling a charge that is a firm of web 2.0, it can limit the access to its API which has been used in building a lot of things and also have future potential. In response, Jack Dorsey responded about the API being killed, admitting that it is the worst thing to have done. He also says that at that time, he was not running the company, adding that the company is working hard to open back completely.
Twitter was not a truly decentralized platform, but under the mandate of Jack Dorsey, a lot of discussions regarding this subject have been going on. Jack Dorsey himself stated that social networking should be reduced to a simple protocol client that is open. The former CEO also stated that Twitter had the potential for becoming decentralized for the internet in the beginning, much like SMTP which is a protocol followed for sending emails. But for many reasons and after a reasonable amount of time a different path was followed leading to Twitter becoming more centralized. But it has witnessed several changes over the tenure of past few years.
The closest it came to working out in that favour was with the help of the first API. It gave the developers as well as the users and researchers who used this platform a lot of freedom. Due to this API, many useful tools became available that are still in use nowadays. An application named Tweety was also purchased by Twitter for taking a base on iOS and Mac OS, transforming it into an application that is official in terms of Twitter for Mac and iPhone.
The users were deprived of the opportunity to benefit from the product that was superior that the ones that are made available through the website, official clients and through the functional parity. The past few years saw it becoming impossible to cast a vote in the pill with the help of instruments other than what was made available by the government.
Small developers in particular had the potential of earning a living with the help of their programs removed, because of a severe limit on the capabilities of the programs and subsequently their attraction to the users. The tokens that were used for logging in were severely restricted, in some cases that developers were required to pay Twitter for utilizing their API, which made the challenge of the business model more severe.
There has been a shift in recent years and Jack Dorsey now has the responsibility of ensuring that the restoration gains back at least some degree of decentralization soon, since the slow progress in the second term. To this day, there is no equivalency in the function of the API and the functions that are offered by the corporation.