and from today:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2012/06/29/twitter-unlinks-from-linkedin/

http://dailysocial.net/en/2012/06/30/third-party-apps-in-danger-as-twitter-severs-ties-with-linkedin/

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/did-twitter-just-deliver-third-party-apps-a-death-blow.php

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406565,00.asp

and the blog post from Twitter, dated today

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/delivering-consistent-twitter-experience

See paragraph 4 for the important bits. The March 2011 post was the shot across the bow. Now they are finalizing it. So yeah, relevant.