Twitter Tuesday - Twitter bans third-party ads, plans to tax developers

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Holy schnikies, there's a lot going on this week! Twitter is really ticking off developers with some new advertising policies, but it's moving forward with new features, too. Meanwhile, on the app front, we finally saw the debut of Twitter for iPhone (formerly Tweetie). I don't like it one bit, and I'll tell you why after the jump.

Let's go!

First up, ads. In preparation for the launch of its own ad system, Promoted Tweets, Twitter has banned third-party ad services from advertising in the Twitter timeline. This is terrible news for companies like Ad.ly and Sponsored Tweets, who have now basically lost their entire revenue streams. Twitter made a similar move earlier this year by creating official Twitter apps that compete directly with third-party developers. It seems the community thought that Twitter would just be a passive pipe, but Twitter is aggressively seeking out ways to make money and snapping them up.

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