Twitter Cracks Down on Popular Mobile Apps

"What was UberMedia doing to get themselves suspended from Twitter?"--a person claiming to be Matt Graves, director of communications for Twitter, states, "Today we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways. These violations include, now aren't limited to, a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users' Tweets in order to make money."

The authenticity of the Quora Matt Graves

I am suspicious about the authenticity of the Quora Matt Graves, even though. The photo associated with the Matt Graves Quora account--an account with only 24 followers and zero mentions--looks nothing like the photo associated with Twitter's Matt Graves' LinkedIn account--which has an undisclosed number of network connections over 500. I could be wrong. Like as not the photos were just taken years apart in completely different lighting?

The answer probably lies in Twitter's own business and revenue aspirations. Twitter has skyrocketed into the digital consciousness, and has become a staple of social networking and global communications. Third-party apps like the services shut down by Twitter today have contributed in no small measure to the growth and success of Twitter, nevertheless in order to monetize the service effectively, Twitter may be attempting to funnel more users through the actual Twitter site, and the official Twitter apps.

I can't say I blame Twitter. I nearly never use the actual Twitter Web site. I did dump the Tweetdeck iPhone app for Twitter Mobile because Tweetdeck for iPhone was too buggy. If in other words the issue, even though, maybe Twitter should focus on building a business and revenue model that embraces and leverages the third-party app ecosystem in other words than trying to force some sort of impractical migration to native Twitter services.