Will Twitter’s IPO mean the death of third-party Twitter apps as we know them?

Twitter has shown us numerous times in the past that it has no problem angering third-party developers — and in turn, users — with restrictions as it continues its effort to increase revenue. Now, with news that the company will soon go public, questions now must be raised about the future of third-party Twitter clients as a whole. The company made some big changes to its API last year that caused a panic across tech blogs and even some mainstream media. By capping the number of users a Twitter app could support without first getting permission from Twitter, users and developers worried that Twitter was waging war on third-party apps. While that panic ended up being somewhat overblown, we may



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