18.08.2012 04:08 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Twitter's API plans cause trouble for iOS devs, but they're sticking with it

Twitter has announced a series of upcoming changes to its API that could cause problems for developers who use it their apps. There are a number of technical and aesthetic updates, but the biggest change is that certain calls to the API will be rate-limited and governed by authentication tokens, which means that any developers signing in to the Twitter service will need to monitor when they're logging in and how. Also, Twitter is going to be enforcing certain "display requirements" in order to get developers to conform to the service's look and feel. In Twitter apps, these things aren't a big problem. They ask that the "@" symbol is always used with usernames, and that retweet, reply, and favorite buttons are always clear and in the same place. But for apps that use T

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