Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has delivered a warning to Twitter over changes made by the company that restrict third-party apps built on its platform.

“Twitter can be incredibly valuable as an open communications mechanism but, if you close too many things down too quickly, if you think about it too short-sightedly, you could easily do a lot of damage to that ecosystem,” he tells the Daily Telegraph.

“Twitter was created as an open platform, an open communications ecosystem, and I hope it can stay that way. You have to be really careful not to let money get in the way of that.”

McCue’s words carry weight, because he was a member of Twitter’s board until earlier this year. Flipboard is also one of the apps affected by Twitter’s changes, although McCue maintains they are “not too big a deal”.