Twitter adds line breaks; brace yourself for insane ASCII art

With this update of Twitter's own making, tweets which look interesting and sensible on Twitter.com will look completely stupid and odd (see Twitter's own embedded tweet) on any other platform.

What we learned from these seven developer stories in 2012

It's not all developer drama. Every story has a moral. Here are the seven most important lessons we learned in 2012.

Every tweet ever written is now available to search and analyze, thanks to Gnip

Today, devs are getting the same level of access the Library of Congress got when it started archiving and storing all Twitter data. Only this time, it's commercially available.

Twitter’s new certified products tap best vendors for data, analytics, and APIs

Twitter has created its very own Dean's List for vendors of Twitter-related products -- everything from Twitter analytics to Twitter API licensing. Called Certified Products, the program aims to connect these Twitter-approved services with the brands and developers that need them most.

Twheel’s fate: Still doomed at Twitter-imposed limit of 100K users

Twheel is gorgeous, but it violates Twitter's API guidelines. To stay alive it now has to limit its total number of users to 100,000 or fewer.

Under strained circumstances, Thirst dares to launch a new Twitter app

Twitter's API changes have made quite a few folks shy about launching Twitter clients. Not Thirst. This team has just put out a new version of its iOS app, and it's without a doubt the prettiest Twitter client we've ever seen.

This Twitter client is fun, gorgeous, and utterly doomed

We've been keeping an eye on Twheel, an absolutely stunning Twitter client for iOS. It's a fun, thumbable carousel that presents tweets in an entirely new and totally gorgeous interface.

Too bad it was doomed from the start.

Flipboard founder backs slowly away from Twitter’s board

Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has announced his departure from Twitter’s board of directors.

In a tweet on the change, the serial entrepreneur sounded no false notes, graciously saying, “To the @Twitter team: it was amazing to be part …

Hootsuite CEO says the valuation tops $500M, but VCs aren’t buying it [exclusive]

Contrary to rumors, social media startup Hootsuite is not actively raising another round — but if it were, its price tag would be even higher than reported.

We had a nice chat yesterday with Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes. …

In a commitment to honesty, Twitter tries to bury the hatchet with third-party developers

Ryan Sarver had just come back to work after his wedding.

Notice I said “wedding” and not “honeymoon.” Sarver has for some time been Twitter’s first line of defense between the company and a occasionally disgruntled army of third-party developers. …

Topify swan dives into the deadpool, courtesy of Twitter API snafu

Topify, an email service that made Twitter’s email notifications actually actionable, is shutting itself down Friday, August 5.

The service’s creator, Arik Fraimovich, emailed users a “so long and thanks for all the fish” note, stating the reason for the …