Twitter Policys Latest Victim: If This Then That

The online service IFTTT is the latest company to suffer because of Twitter's new API policy. The service sent a note to users on Thursday afternoon saying it would be removing some abilities with how it interacts with Twitter due to the new rules.

IFTTT, which stands for If This Then That (pronounced "ift" as in "gift"), allows users to create "recipes" for shuttling their data between services. For example, you could create a recipe that automatically sends your Instagram pics to Dropbox ("If I upload a photo to Instagram, then save it to this Dropbox folder").

In the email, IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets says as of Sept. 27, users will no longer be able to use tweets as a trigger (the "if…
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