Rob Johnson

@robjohnson

product . enjoying life at the base of the rocky mountains.

Boulder, CO
Joined May 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Feb 2014

    I spent a large portion of my life earning a computer engineering degree and still can't get our office printer to work.

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  2. Aug 16

    We know we have a lot of work to do. Thank you for working with us to get there.

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  3. Aug 16

    We’ve heard feedback () from our customers about the pain this causes. We’re committed to understanding why people hire 3rd party clients over our own apps, and we’re going to do better with communicating changes

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  4. Aug 16

    We introduced the Account Activity API as a faster & more streamlined way for developers building customer service and brand engagement tools, chatbots, + more. As this new API doesn’t include home timeline data, it is not intended as a solution for 3rd party clients

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  5. Aug 16

    It’s now time to make the hard decision to end support for these legacy APIs — acknowledging that some aspects of these clients will be degraded as a result. We are facing technical and business constraints we can’t ignore and need to turn these off

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  6. Aug 16

    We’ve shared with developers repeatedly that our roadmap for our APIs does not prioritize 3rd party client use cases — even as we’ve continued to maintain a couple specific APIs used heavily by these clients and quietly granted user cap exceptions. We haven't been clear enough

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  7. Aug 16

    We love that developers build experiences on our APIs to push our service and technology forward. We deeply respect the time, energy, and passion they’ve put into building amazing things using Twitter

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  8. Aug 16

    First, some history. 3rd party clients have had a notable impact on the Twitter service and the products we built. Independent developers built the first Twitter client for Mac and the first native app for iPhone. These clients pioneered product features we all know and love.

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  9. Aug 16

    We just published a blog post about our priorities for Twitter client experiences. I want to share some insight on how we reached these decisions, and how we’re thinking about 3rd party clients moving forward

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  10. Aug 16

    I shared the following message with our Twitter team this morning

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  11. Jul 31

    What do you think a healthy “public conversation layer for the internet” would do for people on it’s best day?

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  12. Jul 24

    Ultimately, we are doing this to ensure a better platform for us all, and we will continue to balance holding devs accountable to our policies with making it easy to get started and innovate

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  13. Jul 24

    We are working hard to give devs a speedy review so that they can get started as fast as possible

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  14. Jul 24

    In some cases, this may mean it takes a little longer to get access to our APIs

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  15. Jul 24

    To help us secure our platform and ensure we can continue to invest in developers building with us, we’re now asking to learn more about your plans & ideas before getting started.

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  16. Jul 9

    Glad to have you with us. Welcome!

    First day in the Twitter Boulder office!
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  17. Jun 29

    Enormous congrats to and team! It’s been an incredible journey and we at are very happy for you all!

    TrendKite expands its PR analytics platform by acquiring Insightpool and Union Metrics by
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  18. Jun 1

    Thank you!! 🙏 we could not have made the progress or impact we achieved without your work. Best of luck at what’s next!

    Today is my last day at Twitter. The 6.5 years since starting at Gnip have truly been a highlight of my career and I’m grateful for all the people I met, the teams we built together, and everything we accomplished. On to the next challenge.
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  19. Retweeted
    Apr 26

    Our responses to Chairman and the US Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy:

    Sharing our responses to questions from Chairman on data privacy:
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  20. Retweeted
    Apr 26

    Our developer platform helps make Twitter better. Today we're sharing our core principles of transparency, control and approved uses that guide us as we continue to improve Twitter's data platform to help developers build useful solutions.

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  21. Apr 11

    Undesirable passengers sitting behind you on a flight: A) a loud talker with an alarming lack of self-awareness B) a virulent and vocal Trump supporter who has read way too many conspiracy theories on Facebook C) all of the above. Currently in C situation. Ouch.

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