Twitter wants to fix its relationship with developers. Again.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Twitter wants to improve its relationship with developers ... yet again.

Today, the company announced that it plans to make significant changes to its API — the software developers use to create services that work with Twitter — and that it's opening a new "Developer Labs" program for app makers to test-drive some of its new updates ahead of time. Twitter is now taking applications for the program, which will be open to any registered developer who wants to join.

The move amounts to a "major shift in strategy" for Twitter's developer platform, according to the company's product manager for Twitter's developer platform, Ian Cairns. Practically, this means that yes, there will be more changes to Twitter's developer platform. But for Twitter, which has struggled to win over developers for years, it's also a new opportunity to show them it does actually care about what they think (even if it feels like the millionth time the company is attempting to turn over a new leaf). Read more...