I don't think the reaction would be nearly as bad if Twitter was better at making clients for their own service. They aren't very good at it. Twitter for Mac (née Tweetie) is dying on the vine.
TweetBot is 10x better on iOS than the native client, and Osfoora on the desktop.
Why not meet the challenge of an ecosystem in conjunction with ad revenue rather than just blanket rule against it?
Ditto on Android. Plume is so much better than the official client. This kind of things make you wonder about missed opportunities for Google+, where you can't have a proper alternative client…
http://blog.twitter.com/2010/05/twitter-platform.html
I don't think the reaction would be nearly as bad if Twitter was better at making clients for their own service. They aren't very good at it. Twitter for Mac (née Tweetie) is dying on the vine.
TweetBot is 10x better on iOS than the native client, and Osfoora on the desktop.
Why not meet the challenge of an ecosystem in conjunction with ad revenue rather than just blanket rule against it?