And today, LinkedIn is opening up its API to start letting developers make applications that tap into LinkedIn's social network.

LinkedIn has obviously given security issues a lot of thought from both an API policy perspective as well as the implementation of actual security controls.

Cutting off tweets to LinkedIn users is part of a greater initiative at Twitter to create stricter requirements for developers who use the company's application programming interface (API).

LinkedIn is restricting access to most of its application programming interfaces (APIs) to companies that have struck up partnerships with the social networking company. “Over the past several ...