Twitter's relationship with developers is as complicated as ever.
The company caught developers by surprise Wednesday when it announced it was selling its developer platform Fabric to Google, thus offloading the suite of developer tools it once heralded as the "the future of mobile software."
The news comes a little more than a year after CEO Jack Dorsey, in one of his first public appearances after being reinstated as Twitter's top exec, stood on stage at the company's developer conference and promised to "reset" developer relations.
"Somewhere along the line, our relationship with developers got a little bit complicated, a little bit confusing, a little bit unpredictable," Dorsey told the room. "We want to come to you today first and foremost to apologize for our confusion. We want to reset our relationship and we want to make sure that we are learning, we are listening and that we are rebooting."
While Twitter is not giving up on developers entirely — it will continue to maintain Twitter Kit, monetization platform MoPub and a handful of other developer products and support meet-ups — selling off what was once its flagship developer offering sends mixed signals to developers with whom Twitter has had a historically complicated relationship with.
The news comes a little more than a year after CEO Jack Dorsey, in one of his first public appearances after being reinstated as Twitter's top exec, stood on stage at the company's developer conference and promised to "reset" developer relations.
"Somewhere along the line, our relationship with developers got a little bit complicated, a little bit confusing, a little bit unpredictable," Dorsey told the room. "We want to come to you today first and foremost to apologize for our confusion. We want to reset our relationship and we want to make sure that we are learning, we are listening and that we are rebooting."
While Twitter is not giving up on developers entirely — it will continue to maintain Twitter Kit, monetization platform MoPub and a handful of other developer products and support meet-ups — selling off what was once its flagship developer offering sends mixed signals to developers with whom Twitter has had a historically complicated relationship with.
“I didn't know anything about this which is strange because I am a Twitter developer community manager,” said Ryan Bell, head of studio at VRScout who also runs a Los Angeles-based Twitter community group. He had a call scheduled with Twitter for later in the day.
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