Small changes that they apparently didn't want to make, if it took them ten months to get started. I guess getting cut off is quite motivating.

According to Twitter, UberMedia infused twitter streams in their apps with ads. Turning off that 'feature' is probably trivial, but if that's UberMedia's business model, I can understand why they're hesitant to do so.

> According to Twitter, UberMedia infused twitter streams in their apps with ads.

But what problem should twitter be having ? If public dislike the ads they won't use it probably. If they are doing so, they are probably OK with it. There are lots of ads-free client out there.

They want to be the sole infuser of ads into Twitter streams.

Twitter has a right to protect the quality of their stream.

With 140 characters, there's no room signature spam.

Twitter's policy that you can't alter the user's tweeters is one of the first thing a developer sees in the terms of use.

The problem, I believe, is that they don't want users to be confused about where ads are coming from. Ads embedded in update streams may seem to be coming from twitter. Many other twitter clients have ads, they just make sure they can't be mistaken for ads embedded in updates.

I have a feeling that these changes were requested many times and a long time ago...