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Twitter Confirms Third-Party Apps Like Tweetbot Were Intentionally Blocked
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Which, unless it improves a lot, good luck with that. I just vastly prefer the timeline experience in Tweetbot.
As far as money goes: they never bothered to set up a revenue-sharing model, or making ads mandatory in the API (or offering them at all), or similar. So that’s kind of on them. I would’ve accepted the ads if I could’ve had them in my preferred client. Heck, some users might accept “third-party clients are only allowed for Twitter Blue users”. (Me? Nah. I was an extremely online Twitter user before Elon, and I might have paid $20/yr or something for Twitter, but $11/mo or a whopping $132/yr? Yeeeeeeah, no. I’m stunned that he finds many customers at all at that price tag. It’s not even ad-free!)
I agree, this is disgraceful and unprofessional conduct on the part of Elon Musk.
And that sums up the problem right there...most people will just continue to use Twitter...just like we all complain about Facebook, but only like 3 people actually leave.
Nah, I deleted Tweetbot from my devices even before Musk disabled third party app access and this just cements that decision. There is no version of the future where I use the default Twitter app and I suspect many are of the same thought.And that sums up the problem right there...most people will just continue to use Twitter...just like we all complain about Facebook, but only like 3 people actually leave.
Oh, and as for Facebook, I deleted my account there over 10 years ago.
Don't confuse your own weakness as weakness in general. Some of us do indeed follow through.
this is sad.
I’ve been using Tweetbot basically since it first came out and I was sooo annoyed on Thursday. I can’t stand the official Twitter app, but I do love Twitter…
I happily paid for Tweetbot every update too. this needs to be fixed.
I’ve been using Tweetbot basically since it first came out and I was sooo annoyed on Thursday. I can’t stand the official Twitter app, but I do love Twitter…
I happily paid for Tweetbot every update too. this needs to be fixed.
You understand it right, the local server is just all that servers content, the federated is anything outside your local server that you follow.
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Should have gone through the trial and proceeded through the court. It would have saved him lots of money and a major headache. Even if he had lost the case I don’t think it would have cost him $44 Billion dollars. Now he is stuck paying the banks with interests.Twitter Inc sued Musk to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition.
Twitter sues to force Musk to complete his $44B acquisition
Twitter sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday to force him to complete the $44 billion acquisition of the social media company.apnews.com
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It was deleted ages ago. Currently using my friend's account to keep up with the mess on Twitter 😝. She wasn’t using it so I decided to put use on her Twitter account. Not sure how long that’s going to last tho. The stupid monthly subscription is running out tho.
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Twitter sued because the $54.20 per share ($44 billion) buy out offer was a damn good deal. Too good. No way Twitter would ever get anyone to bid anywhere close to that amount later on. Twitter didn't want the $1 billion break up fee, even if Musk would have paid it. They wanted to full $44 billion for the shareholders.
No problem with Fenix. Blocks ads too.
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There was never an option for Musk to only pay the "breakup fee". It wasn't a get out of jail free card for musk, it was more if his financing wasn't in order or something out of his control. Not wanting to buy it doesn't count.
I don't blame them one bit. If someone offered me twice what the market said my house was worth in a binding contract and tried to walk away, I would certainly put legal pressure on them to honor it. I wouldn't care the slightest if they bluntly told me their intention was to tun it into a crackhouse and infuriate my neighbors.
You're right about one thing, it would not have cost Musk $44 billion. It would have been more than that after you add in his legal fees and Twitter's legal fees as he would be responsible for covering them after he loses the case.
Musk's legal fees are estimated to be in the neighborhood of $100 million when he relented and agreed to buy Twitter. Add Twitter's legal fees and he's probably at around $200 million. If he continued the fight and didn't give in, that's another several weeks of legal fees, times two.
In the end, this would have been closer to $45 billion.
And that sums up the problem right there...most people will just continue to use Twitter...just like we all complain about Facebook, but only like 3 people actually leave.
That’s the reason why so many people continue to use twitter though. It’s home to both your friends and your enemies.
It’s also why I feel advertising is ultimately a poor fit for twitter (usage is often intense and combative and users don’t really want to engage with ads during this time, compared to another platform like say Instagram or Pinterest). But given how few people are willing to subscribe to twitter blue, I can’t think of another source of revenue for them.
It's the same hardware with new chips on the same fab - what is there to talk about? Do people get excited when Intel goes from 10th gen to 11th gen CPU's?
He really is the worst.
Looks like updates for Mac Twitter abruptly stopped 3 months ago. I’m guessing the team who made it are gone and it’s no longer a priority.
People don’t care about the platform, they care about the people they follow on the platform. As long as their faves stay devoted to Twitter people will keep using Twitter regardless of Lord Musk. I like Mastodon, but it’s too geeky and complex to gain mass appeal.
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