This is a good move, in a series of good moves recently, by the slowly-becoming-irrelevant service.

I want to get excited by this API change, I really do. But I can't help but quash my own shower-thoughts about what I could do with this API, because what's to say they let their 3rd-party devs down again?[0]

[0] - http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/23/3263481/twitter-api-third-...