They pay a large monthly fee to use the API .. do some research before you post belony like this...
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Twitter Confirms Third-Party Apps Like Tweetbot Were Intentionally Blocked
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Third party apps don’t “block” ads.
The Twitter API (that Devs pay to access) don’t return ads.
This **** is on Twitter.
I suppose it is their right to do that, but at least 6 months notice would be fair. Or at least 3 months?
Who cares, those apps were just used for spamming business tweets.
100% twitter is able to enable ads on 3rd party API's... they have not....
I never saw anything amazing with these 3rd party apps but I am sure they did something that people wanted over the stock app. I wonder what will happen next.
That’s exactly my point.
They should have done that in an upfront way, with advance notice, out of respect for Devs and their customers that helped build the platform over 15+ years
Not the low-ass shady rat bastard **** they’ve pulled
Not having ads was a big positive, but that's not due to the devs themselves. Twitter could have implemented ads into the API and forced devs to show them...heck, they might even do this as a compromise going forward.
Echofon Pro was the only thing that made Twitter even remotely bearable.
I mean, if the idea was to force people to spend less time on the platform, they def succeeded with me - I've spent a LOT less time there since they killed off the third-party apps.
I mean, if the idea was to force people to spend less time on the platform, they def succeeded with me - I've spent a LOT less time there since they killed off the third-party apps.
Thought you deleted your account weeks ago
Nobody needs most of the stuff that drives the economy, but here we are anyway.
I'm going to venture a guess that someone at Twitter, whether Musk himself or an underling who is a true believer, had the notion that if they broke the other clients and said nothing, most of the users of those clients would assume the clients were at fault and move over to the official Twitter app, or the website itself, both of which offer Twitter much better opportunities for creepy data collection, showing ads, and presenting you with the tweets/people they want you to look at, rather than the ones you've chosen to look at (that is, a simple chronological timeline of accounts you follow).
Musk thinks Twitter users are all idiots who can be easily led and farmed. I'm sure some of them are, but clearly not all. Also, he's looking for any possible way out of the the inescapable hole his mouth dug himself into here - there's no way to make enough money off of Twitter to even pay the interest on the money he borrowed to buy Twitter.
Not true, Mastodon's numbers have skyrocketed.
You are 100% correct: you are guessing.
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I just find the whole thing so bizarre. If he didn't like third party clients you'd still think that he would understand that a good chunk of the heaviest Twitter users would be people that paid to use a third party client. Isn't this behavior going to alienate even more of them? Why not just say that they're going to cut off access on a certain date to prepare people? Why not make using third party clients require Twitter Blue for some more revenue? Why go so many days without saying anything?
that requires Elon to think rationally
you would have better luck teaching a dog to drive a stick shift than Elon making a rational decision
I mean this is the same Elon that cut the janitorial staff at twitter which resulted in employees needing to bring their own toilet paper to the office
Twitter employees bring their own toilet paper as Elon Musk cuts costs, NYT reports
Allegations of various odors throughout the offices comes after Twitter terminated its contract with janitors after they demanded better wages in early December.
Rules are, unfortunately, whatever the rich guy says, changeable at any moment. Decisions there seem to be entirely based on his whims at this point.
This has nothing to do with firing the Pr team, at all. This was his call and even if they had a pr team it would have been done this way.
The amount of stuff on the federated view depends on the size of the server you are on. Smaller servers can have a pace that is more manageable and you can actually find some posts and people that way.
But I think mostly it’s a bit of a gimmick. The Explore/Trends is more useful.
"using the tried-and-true 'violates some policy' reason" First the apps just stopped working. FIVE days later, they finally confirmed it was intentional. Yes, that does seem to be new. Do you have an example of a prior instance? I believe, for example, when Apple bans an app they announce it at the time of the ban; and they only ban one app at a time, not some vague undefined class. But, that may just the difference between a business, and an indulgence.