<p>Almost a year has passed since Twitter instigated its user token scheme to limit Twitter-based applications to 100,000 users, unless authorised by the company to exceed that limit.</p><p>A particular type of application, the Twitter client, was singled out by the company for special attention as Twitter moved to exert as much control over its third-party ecosystem as it could get away with.</p><p>One Android app, Falcon Pro, has been through more trouble with Twitter and user tokens than most. In February this year, the app's developer Joaquim Verges pushed the price of Falcon Pro to US$132 in an effort to limit the installation and, therefore, the number of tokens being used by the app.</p><p>That wasn't all Verges had in store; as well as jacking up the price, he reset the app's key and thus gained another 100,000 tokens. He cited piracy as illegitimately eating up many of the precious tokens. It was a feat that Verges repeated in June as the token limit was hit again.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/federated-falcon-pro-attempts-to-escape-twitters-cage-7000017701/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/4/4494564/falcon-pro-update-lets-users-circumvent-twitters-token-limits">Falcon Pro update lets users circumvent Twitter&#039;s token limits by registering ...</a> (The Verge)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dj_A7JpmUV556XM8yFgqYIB4wXyDM&ned=us">5 additional articles.</a></p>