Talk about pissing off your core community and getting left sucking dust. If Twitter doesn't stop pissing off its API developer community, there's a strong chance it might end up like another Digg
http://www.ereviewguide.com/news/201...pace-and-digg/
Digg used to be a lot of fun. It was also the fastest way to get indexed. Too bad they nofollowed those submitted links and it all went downhill from there very quickly.