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Thanks DC! - Jesse Stay

I think limiting API calls makes sense from a resource conservation (ultimately cost) perspective. I also happen to believe they will offer premium ($) API access and/or begin to provide analytics tools that many 3rd parties currently provide. It certainly is tricky to build a business on top of another business that has yet to reveal its own monetization strategy. One thing to be certain of in business is that one's "partners" will never sacrifice revenue in order to assure other's revenue. - coldbrew

Sure they need to limit and control their API usage but they're different ways to do that. The API itself is too simple in a sense that 3rd party apps need to make a lot of calls to retrieve the information they need. Twitter MUST improve their API. - fbrunel

I think there is very little chance the API will be tweaked in such a way to allow for bulk operations to be performed quickly. That would allow the value of Twitter to be slowly assumed by applications built on top. Whatever type of platform this is ("microblogging" is not adequate b/c it misses the near real-time and multi-protocol pieces), I'm sure as shit who nailed the execution (branding, very open API, gradual user engagement). They have mind share, so don't become adversarial, and hedge your bets. - coldbrew

Why doesn't Twitter just ask these heavy users to pay for access to super high rate limits. They could take the money they make from charging and just add servers to handle the increased load. They already have a modular system, they should be able to throw servers to scale things. I don't know how far along they are in this rewrite in technology, but adding hardware should suffice until they can release that. - Jared Mehle

I was thinking 6 months ago that a business model could emerge around API call limits. - Mark Scrimshire

Answering Mark, it's because when Robert wrote this, he sent a tweet, and there is a delay between the tweet hitting FriendFeed and the blog post. Therefore, the conversation is already happening on the tweet before the blog post arrives. Happens to me as well. - Louis Gray

Mr. Scoble... Let me turn the dime on you... Google Scholar has a proprietary crawl on nearly 1 Million documents in the peer-reviewed energy exploration vertical search platform I operate by day. They've indexed something like 40,000 of them so far. Yahoo has NO CLUE those exist. They won't and can't. Google's already perfecting "closed" search deals (in enterprise and behind paywalls like mine). - Gerald Buckley

And, to Lousi and Mark, he also did a Reader shared item for it which also has comments. It's almost like he's trying to show how scattered things can get on friendfeed. I had to try to find this entry to comment here. I could have just done a Reader-share-with-comments, but I didn't. It would have been easier, though. - lilbyrdie

Personally I'm very bored of Facebook and I think a lot of people will get bored of it over the coming months and years. We've been through all this before. Five years ago in the UK friendsreunited was huge; it was all anyone talked about. They tried to maintain their monopoly by keeping it incredibly closed. Now it's virtually dead. Great services always beat big walls. - Charlie