Whether or not to ignore the constant Twitter ban

Recently, according to the Science and Technology blog BusinessInsider magazine, Twitter was founded initially rely on others to help, successfully grow into a large enterprise. But the growth will also have a strong worry. Twitter has blocked a number of third party apps from the uproar, suggesting that Twitter's current policy is very different from the original one. But Flickr survived because Flickr's owner Yahoo wouldn't pose a threat to Twitter. It can be seen that working with Twitter is the danger of knowing that you will be blocked.

Since its inception, Twitter has relied on the kindness of strangers. Companies such as Yahoo and LinkedIn saw their unpredictable potential as a helping hand as Twitter was still an obscure start-up.

Now, Twitter's wings have hardened and the number of users has reached 200 million, seemingly unfriendly.

Twitter has been feuding with LinkedIn, Instagram and Tumblr in recent months, and its tough tactics seem to be in stark contrast to its initial friendliness.

To understand why, you need to look back on Twitter's humble history and the struggles it has made in the process of development.

Twitter opened its doors to developers in 2006, and since then programmers have been fascinated by the idea of broadcasting news updates in real time, while content publishers want to find an outlet for their news, and ordinary people want to have the right to speak, creating the value of Twitter.

In its latest round of fundraising, investors gave the company a 8 billion-dollar valuation, which, in the words of Twitter's CEO Dick Costello Dick Costolo, sent a "truckload of money" to the company. Twitter has a total of more employees who wholeheartedly work for Twitter, hoping to translate the idea of its co-founder into reality and integrate it into the company's business. It is reported that compared with the 350 million U.S. dollars in revenue forecasts this year, Twitter revenue next year is expected to reach the figure of three times times to 1 billion U.S. dollars.

The more help you receive, the greater your expectations.

This summer, Twitter unexpectedly blocked Instagram and Tumblr and no longer allowed users of these two services to use the Twitter fan Map API (Application programming Interface). The reason for this is simple: Twitter has changed the terms of the developer and has limited the "attempt to replicate the Twitter core user experience" application. Twitter did so because it decided to better control the way people look at Twitter information.

Specifically, developers "must not use Twitter content or other data collected from end users to establish or maintain a separate status update or social networking database or service." "Of course, this includes a list of Twitter users ' concerns.

For the moment, there is a truth to this: Instagram is now being bought by Facebook, why is Twitter helping it, and Tumblr is a competitor for Twitter in real time sharing, and why is it building a user base?

These provisions naturally apply to anyone. However, the latest mobile app at Yahoo's photo-sharing site Flickr allows users to search for friends on Twitter.

Neither Twitter nor Yahoo has commented. But Twitter does not think Flickr's mobile apps are replicating Twitter's core user experience, according to people familiar with the matter. (Twitter and Flickr currently allow users to take photos, edit and post to Twitter and use photo filters from the same company.) )

Clearly, this is somewhat contradictory. Flickr is a picture-sharing social network for users to share what is happening around the world, similar to Instagram, and the business that Twitter wants to involve.

The only reason for this paradox is that Flickr is owned by Yahoo, not facebook,twitter.

Since 2010, Twitter and Yahoo have established partnerships to integrate Twitter with Yahoo's many services. When Marissa (Marissa Mayer) was CEO of Yahoo, the Twitter CEO Costello and chairman and co-founder Dorsey (Jack Dorsey) warmly congratulated her.

But the relationship between Twitter and Tumblr and Instagram is more rigid. It is reported that Twitter has tried to buy the two companies, but have been rejected. Finally, Facebook bought Instagram, while Twitter included Tumblr's rival Posterous.

Twitter seems to be saying a tough message: either sell it to us or you'll be blocked. But there should be some sympathy for Twitter, a strategy that its leaders learned through hardship.

Facebook was rumoured to have failed to buy Twitter at 500 million dollars in 2008. Then in 2010, Twitter launched a new feature that allows users to find Facebook friends through the service. Facebook's response was to ban it immediately.

So Twitter is just trying to do the same.

This June, Twitter ended its long-standing partnership with LinkedIn, a move that heralded the firm's hard-line stance towards Tumblr and Instagram.

Twitter has also clashed with client developers or similar conflicts. Twitter has encouraged mobile clients and other Third-party applications to read and send messages, and has announced plans to reach ad sales partnerships with these services.

However, Twitter realized that it had made a big mistake and that the way it was connected to Twitter was confusing to consumers, and then the company changed its terms.

In short, if you want to work with Twitter, you can send your own content. If you want to use Twitter content, it's best to be cautious.

To put it bluntly, Twitter is a business that is first to be held accountable to shareholders, employees and users, not rivals or speculators. And people want to be kind to others, especially those who are good to themselves. Yahoo's support for Twitter in 2010 boosted the latter, so Twitter has to give it back.

But Twitter wants to be the city square of the Internet, becoming a meeting place and a public forum. In this regard, Twitter's murky rules and conflicting actions scare people away, hurting themselves and everyone they want to serve.

If these rules are transparent and do not discriminate in execution, that is the same. But only Flickr's preferential treatment suggests that if you are able to maintain a friendship with Twitter, it will spared you.