Well I just took a look at it. It is a mess. The experience feels sloppy.
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Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]
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To me it feels like the API should have returned Ads into feeds like facebook.That might have been a better play then reducing the number of users on your site. It was a bold move to shut down apps that funnelled content to and from your service to users that may not be interested in using it otherwise. I doubt the number of users who have switched back to the official platform is greater than the market loss hit.
Twitter isn’t a charity, so why should they let other people profit off their hard work?
Maybe they will open a Twitter Store where developers can offer 3rd party clients for a fair and reasonable 30% cut of every purchase made.
Nobody here should have any problem with this. You guys have made that perfectly clear for years.
Maybe they will open a Twitter Store where developers can offer 3rd party clients for a fair and reasonable 30% cut of every purchase made.
Nobody here should have any problem with this. You guys have made that perfectly clear for years.
So many gimmick accounts are gonna move to Mastodon now because of this change. They relied on TweetBot to send out timed automated tweets. With it gone, Elon made their lives more difficult than it needed to be.
Indeed, very fleeting and unpredictable, which means they do not have good policies in place (if they do have those applicable policies in place at all!). Sounds like this is running a company by dint of emotions and outbursts. That sounds very much like the bratty character that Elon is.
Been with Tweetbot for a long while. I do agree that they made minor changes and charged again and again. I did like no ads and it was my ONLY twit client. I refuse to use the garbage native app. Ever. I also think musk is really driving Twitter into the ground.
Mastedon I tried. It was and is a cluster. I don't get it and don't have the time to figure it out. Best of luck to them!
Mastedon I tried. It was and is a cluster. I don't get it and don't have the time to figure it out. Best of luck to them!
This. I’m surprised it took this long to happen. Pay Twitter $8 for fewer ads or go pay tweetbot or whoever to eliminate ads while Twitter gets nothing.
My only issue is ending it abruptly without communication and consider a possible win-win scenario with these third party applications.
These 3 party apps with automated tweets and respond contribute greatly to the inflated user counts and engagement. Getting rid of them is a good thing to get Twitter back to more real human interactions. On the side note, do they ever pay Twitter any money for all proceeds they got from users for all these years? I don't think they did. So they just freeloaded twitter for the last 10+ years. That doesn't seem right.
I agree. Don't delete it, I won't.
It might come back. Nobody knows how long Elon will own Twitter? 😂
I will sitt back and enjoying the show from a safe distance. No plans to use Twitter for awhile.
Life is better without it. What future holds awe never know though.
Elon Musk wants to control ALL information, so yes, he wants you on his app. 1984 is calling and everyone seems to be oblivious to it.
Elon will change his mind next week, the Tweetbot obituary seems a bit premature.
Treating these third party Twitter client devs as potential business partners would make a little noise and get some big thumbs up in the tech-sphere, sure. But a gesture like that is too nice to really get anyone talking. It could potentially go completely under the radar.
Pulling the rug under them and all their users overnight without a warning, however, is what creates headlines on macrumors and every major newssite.
Undeserved "bashing" or not, at the end of the day, it's just more exposure for Tesla and more lore for the "lazy leftist freeloaders of Old Twitter vs. hardworking conservative billionaire Elon Musk of New Twitter" narrative that is getting Elon so many brownie points with the right.
Dude really knows how to sell!
Let's hope for him that he picked the side that's most susceptible to buy new Tesla products and use Twitter. Something tells me he didn't. 😅
So odd. Meanwhile the Twitter app has stopped functioning correctly on my iPhone.
In case no one noticed, Twitter is over. Musk has effectively killed it. The current service known as Twitter is nothing but a hollow monument to a poor businessman who has no sense of perspective.
Exactly. I mean, I'm fine with saying they only want their app. But, the pot calling the kettle black.
The difference is that yes, people giving opinions on MacRumors articles is part of Twitter, but cancelling people for minuscule things, political radicalism, "as a xyz" posts, and endless fights about minor details of a movie are not part of MacRumors. It's not the posts, it's the general vibe. We aren't encouraged to make the most outrageous comments about things in exchange for engagement here.
