Twitter’s All Like “We Don’t Need You LinkedIn,” But Still Bends Over Backwards For Facebook

TechCrunch writes, Nothing is more fascinating than the tech platform API wars because they are so, so similar to high school. Once a company feels it’s too cool for another company, it starts shutting off parts of its API to that company, like what happened here with Facebook and Google. It’s basically one of those big, swinging dick types of things, that I, as a female, entirely understand. Twitter’s move is completely about growth and engagement. Twitter currently has over 500 million users, LinkedIn, a modest 150 million. Facebook, which is at almost a billion users, is clearly bigger than...

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