Twitter, you need to do a better job at communicating with the developer ecosystem that has been formed around your API for the past couple of years. At least, that’s the message the developers themselves seem to be sending out to the startup at an increasing rate. Jesse Stay from SocialToo wrote something about this earlier today on his blog, criticizing the startup over a change it made to its following limit policy without notifying anyone else prior to the tweak actually being implemented.

Now we’re getting more and more incoming from developers who have noticed that OAuth, an open authorization protocol that Twitter’s been testing in public beta for about a month now, has been “temporarily disabled”. Naturally, Twitter is abuzz with angry and confused third-party application developers, some of which started reporting the fact that oAuth stopped working as early as three days ago. That means some of them have been unable to let new users sign up for quite a while, and although some are saying that Twitter knows about the problem and is working on a fix, silence from the company seems to be the key trend here. Update: they did respond to a query (again from Jesse Stay) in this group, saying that the problem should be solved in 48 hours. (message from 12 AM, Apr 21) Meanwhile, Twitter’s lead API developer Alex Payne has admitted that the startup is coping with a ‘big support backlog’ and that they’re trying to hire more people to handle the load. Full Story On Tech Crunch

News around Google are in advance talks to acquire twitter for about 250 million dollars according to a blog post over on Techcrunch suggest that ceo Evan Williams would not sell twitter for 1 billion dollars however talks continue and business as usual at twitter. Just trying to think what the bonus for Google in acquiring twitter would be your guest is as good as mine and for ceo Evan Williams saying that he would not sell twitter for 1 billion dollars could be just reverse psychology to encourage a better asking price however looking at Google past acquisitions soon we may need to change the word internet  to Google net for now nothing is agreed however twitter considered itself independent and has a long term future ahead

Google has just announced plans to cut almost 200 people from the sales and marketing teams around the world.

According to the announcement, the affected employees will be given time to find new positions at Google and/or help in locating a job elsewhere. They’ll also give severance packages to those who leave the company.

“Google has grown very quickly in a very short period of time. When companies grow that quickly it’s almost impossible to get everything right—and we certainly didn’t. In some areas we’ve created overlapping organizations which not only duplicate effort but also complicate the decision-making process. That makes our teams less effective and efficient than they should be. In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time.”

I earlier posted an article about Credit Crunch the question is has this taken its toll on the search engine giat have your say