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Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]
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I don't think anyone forgot about it... it was so long ago that it's no longer relevant to even talk about.
Unsubstantiated drivel, try againThe reason why it's even at the top #2 is because Elon Musk was literally crying to Mr. Tim Cook over 2 months ago. Awkward moment and a conversation. Also, notice Tim Cook didn't even bother posting a photo with him.
Uninvited guest at Apple Park.
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Which is an absolutely valid point, if you are completely ignorant of your companies root of success. Bruh...
And yes, there are alternative instagram clients.
Not showing ads or exposing new features was entirely Twitter's doing - they created separate API for their first party application.
That the new management didn't like their prior decades-long business partnerships (which was what these were) is no excuse to cut off API access in the dead of night, with no prior warning for these small businesses or their mutual user base, and giving no confirmation that API access was even revoked on purpose for a week.
Once again, the new management takes the most erratic and sociopathic approach to implement change.
But not exclusively - he had others help come up with the money, and presumably they make up the board.
They can't cancel out his own stake, but they can certainly tell him he's not allowed to shovel their money in the fire anymore.
They could be added to the API - advertisements are promoted tweets, so they would just be part of the timeline data with extra metadata (aka the "promoted" badging).
Access was already not open, so Twitter would require them to present advertisements in a certain way to maintain their client keys.
That said, Twitter has always had problems upgrading their public-facing APIs, and just lost the majority of their engineering talent. Trying to consolidate the public and private client API may be beyond them now.
All that is ignoring that Twitter completely controlled the timeline and manner by which they cut off third party client access, and somehow yet again managed to do it in the manner that made them look the worst.
My understanding was that many of these clients had alternative arrangements, e.g. it was more of a business partnership. Since Twitter was late having their own native client (they purchased one of the existing third party apps), many of those clients already had more than that number of active users.
I assume you mean banning Steam and Epic and the like on Mac.
And no, there would be pitchforks. Apple execs would be dragged in front of congress here in the US within the month.
They actually did plan to effectively ban Epic from publishing signed apps/frameworks for the Mac and cut off their first party developer access for Unreal engine, but were blocked by the courts. This actually wouldn't prevent the Epic store from running, but would require you get it out of quarantine first after download.
Who in their right mind would want to advertise these days on Twitter?
No major corporation wants to touch them with a barge pole.
Twitter's Revenue Down 40% As 500 Top Advertisers Pull Out
Twitter's advertising revenue is down 40%, and over 500 top advertisers have stopped spending since CEO Elon Musk took over.
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Good to see so many (more) people make the switch to Mastodon which is a great alternative. I'm hoping also that more companies and well know people make the switch as well.
There are so many great iOS/iPad OS and MacOS (third party) Mastodon apps available in the App Store (Ice Cubes (App Store, account), Tooot (App Store, account), Toot! (App Store, account), Mastoot (App Store, account), official one) or in TestFlight (Ivory by Tapbot from Tweetbot, Mona by the developer that brought the Spring Twitter app, Mammoth (account), Woolly (account).
See a comparison of quite a lot of the apps out here and this GitHub overview. See also my Mastodon post.
I am wondering if the API issue has always been a Twitter policy which the previous owners did not really enforce because it would have allowed Twitter to charge for use of their API. Now a new owner has taken over the company is enforcing a policy that should have been enforced from the get go.
Different use cases, and different companies. Twitter offered an API. They just took it away. Instagram has never had an API, so there could never be third-party apps.
Also, yes, I use "Clicker for Netflix".
Well, there kinda was given that all these developers had signed contracts with Twitter to get access to their API. Musk just unilaterally cancelled those contracts.
Love the Apple fan boys here, complaining about Elon's and Twitter's decision. These are the same fanboys who are completely happy for Apple to have an App Store monopoly and run their business however they like.
Access to the API was not free; developers had to pay for it.
The problem is that Twitter didn't put ads into the responses for requests to the API, so third-party clients couldn't display ads. This is all on Twitter and Space Karen.
Ultracrepidarian(ism) is one of my favourite newly-learned words of recent years
Twitterrific is asking subscribers not to request a refund from Apple as the loss of the Twitterrific revenue will have a notable impact on the business, and thousands of refunds could be devastating.
seriously? People can refund if they want to. Its their right.
seriously? People can refund if they want to. Its their right.
It's also not The IconFactory's fault that their Twitterrific purchase has now become worthless.
Good move Elon. Make life hard for the (totalitarian) use of spam bots and strengthen freedom of speech and freedom for twitter users.
You can say it's twitters fault, but is it twitters responsibility to make sure others make a profit on twitters business? It really isn't. Things change. The market evolves. We don't ride horses anymore ...we ride EVs.
Its definitely a desperate decision, less people, but those who are using it, are directly making money for twitter. I believe twitter gets less or no ad revenue from third party apps. Now they get all of the money and Musk has a huge interest payment coming due in weeks
Many of these users are likely also midway into their subscriptions. I don't think Twitterific is able to provide partial refunds, and (I think) Apple pulls the full 100% of the fee from developers even as they keep 30% of revenue.
For example, if an app costs $10, Apple keeps $3, Dev gets $7. User requests a refund. Apple will take the full $10 from the Dev, resulting in a net loss for the dev.
Such a move could literally bankrupt small time developers like this. I might be mistaken in my understanding of how App Store payments work, but this is why I never request for an app refund, even when I purchase apps that end up being flat out useless to me.
I agree it's their right to do so. I am also making a plea to any Twitterific user here to simply let their subscription lapse naturally and treat this as your way of supporting the dev.