Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]

Is it actually possible to completely delete a Twitter account ? all I get is deactivate, bit like the Hotel California " You can check out any time you like but you can never leave " !
 
moxxey said:
People have to remember, you're using a free service. This has to be paid for some how and that's mostly handled by advertising. If third-party tools don't show paying ads, both advertisers complain and Twitter makes no money.

There's literally zero incentive for Twitter to allow third party apps.
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Literally zero incentive? Maybe that’s due to lack of imagination
 
moxxey said:
There's literally zero incentive for Twitter to allow third party apps.
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I can easily think of one incentive - people using the platform. If third party tools allowed people to use twitter in a way that fits their usage habits, and now it no longer does. They'll just move to a different platform.

Volume is king, and if advertisers think that less and less people are using the platform, they'll be less likely to fork over a lot of money. With Twitter basically saying bleep off to how people enjoy using the platform, they're taking a risk that those people will leave
 
darkpaw said:
This is fine because I've decided to ban all Teslas and everything else that the "genius" Space Karen, the world's largest government handout recipient does. He can get tae F.
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That shouldn’t be too difficult if you can’t afford one of them 🤣😋
 
moxxey said:
People have to remember, you're using a free service. This has to be paid for some how and that's mostly handled by advertising. If third-party tools don't show paying ads, both advertisers complain and Twitter makes no money.

There's literally zero incentive for Twitter to allow third party apps.
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I actually agree with you.

The issue here isn't whether third party apps should be allowed, but the manner in which Elon Musk has gone about terminating their access, and the lack of communication whatsoever.

I wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as upset if Elon Musk had just come out right from the start and said "Starting from today, we will no longer be allowing third party Twitter apps because they don't generate any ad revenue for us". At least it's honest.

How hard would be it to give Devs advance warning of say, 1 month notice prior to shutting it down? I doubt Twitter is going to lose significant ad revenue in that time vs terminating those APIs right away, not to mention it took them almost a week to respond with a vague post. During this time, you had both users and devs confused as to whether it was a bug on their end, and what the best path forward was.

There's just no reason for this except that he revels in the chaos and suffering he knows his actions will result in.
 
moxxey said:
People have to remember, you're using a free service. This has to be paid for some how and that's mostly handled by advertising. If third-party tools don't show paying ads, both advertisers complain and Twitter makes no money.

There's literally zero incentive for Twitter to allow third party apps.
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There are lots of reasons to allow thrid party apps when your platform is based on creating and consuming content you want to have many avenues possible for that to happen. If he did this because of ads, he could have added ads to the API streams.
 
TopToffee said:
Of course they can, and of course it’s their right.

Twitterrific are also entirely within their right to request their customers do them that kindness. Especially given the circumstances. They’re not asking them not to CANCEL their subscriptions going forward. Not something to get remotely upset about. They’re not forcing anyone to do anything.

Won’t be asking for a refund on my Tweetbot sub personally. They are more than welcome to the portion of my annual sub that is outstanding (a whole £3), after years of quality product before falling foul of Space Karen. If it helps soften the blow, then it’s money well spent.
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I’m letting Twitterrific keep the remainder of my sub. They made Twitter bearable for me and I don’t feel like bothering with the round about ways you have to get the same features back in the default app. Most likely I’ll just keep My account in the off chance the ship is somehow righted but I’m not holding my breath. In the mean time I‘ll enjoy this vacation from doomscrolling for a while.
 
maflynn said:
I can easily think of one incentive - people using the platform. If third party tools allowed people to use twitter in a way that fits their usage habits, and now it no longer does. They'll just move to a different platform.

Volume is king, and if advertisers think that less and less people are using the platform, they'll be less likely to fork over a lot of money. With Twitter basically saying bleep off to how people enjoy using the platform, they're taking a risk that those people will leave
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People using third party apps don't figure into Twitter's ad impressions so your comment makes no sense at all.
 
moxxey said:
People have to remember, you're using a free service. This has to be paid for some how and that's mostly handled by advertising. If third-party tools don't show paying ads, both advertisers complain and Twitter makes no money.

There's literally zero incentive for Twitter to allow third party apps.
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Except for when the creators of those apps are paying Twitter in lieu of those ads. Twitter would be getting paid regardless. This is akin to sacrificing 10 lives to save 12. idiotic move.

BL.
 
The only remotely similar situation i can think of was when Steve Jobs came back to Apple and killed the MacOS licensing program. Back in the mid-90s, Apple had dabbled in licensing MacOS to third party PC makers like Power Computing. The difference between then and now was that when Apple chose not to continue the program, it didn't keep existing users from still using their hardware. In fact, Apple ended up buying Power Computing outright for about $100 million and even allowed some current users to update to System 8. And there was a formal announcement. Twitter just passive aggressively shut down the third party program without any warning. And terminated the incomes for a bunch of people.

Now all of those developers are working on Twitter competitors and this may be an interesting turning point. Part of the problem with using things like Mastadon or Post is the lack of good mobile clients. If they can make a good mobile client of those competitors, it could give those platforms a needed boost and continue the bleeding from Twitter.
 
People are getting incredibly triggered by this. What other major social media services have alternative apps they help support? Facebook? Instagram? Tik Tok? Snapchat? None of them do. It's because alt apps take away from ad revenue, which is what they make their money off of. Musk said he would turn a profit on twitter. Part of that is getting people on the official app so that there is more ad revenue.

For those saying "less people will use the app" I think in some cases, sure. However, the 3rd party app users are pretty hardcore tweeters usually, so I don't think that many people will drop off of Twitter. They will go use the official app.
 
jamcgahey said:
People are getting incredibly triggered by this. What other major social media services have alternative apps they help support? Facebook? Instagram? Tik Tok? Snapchat? None of them do. It's because alt apps take away from ad revenue, which is what they make their money off of. Musk said he would turn a profit on twitter. Part of that is getting people on the official app so that there is more ad revenue.

For those saying "less people will use the app" I think in some cases, sure. However, the 3rd party app users are pretty hardcore tweeters usually, so I don't think that many people will drop off of Twitter. They will go use the official app.
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I think it’s the properly grim, utterly disrespectful way in which this was done that “triggers” (🙄) the majority of people.
 
**** Elon Musk! I don't mind the ads, but let me filter out all the doom and gloom and politics. That's the whole reason I used Tweetbot. The twitter app is garbage, Tweetbot is what motivated me to create a twitter account. All of this because Elon wants us to use the ****** twitter app to see ads that we're just going to scroll through and not read or look at. Elon Musk is a dick!
 
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To those that say the Tweetbot users will use native twitter app, you are wrong. I have deleted my twitter account after Tweetbot got banned. The twitter app is garbage. It doesn't have chronological feed, it doesn't let us see all of a user's media in a thumbnail grid, and its user interface is horrible. I really hate egomaniacs and narcissists, I'll never buy a Tesla. I feel sorry for those who do own a Tesla, 'cause you have to say you own a product from this piece of ****.
 
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nikhsub1 said:
Poor Elmo is now mad he paid 44 billion for twitter and wants to force everyone who wants to use it into his now crappy timeline algorithms and advertising.
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The sad thing is he could easily force both of those to third party apps by changing what the API returns

They would make that change now and it wouldn’t even require an update to the apps
 
I have a theory (and playing "Elon's" advocate) but could the API be shut down to choke out bots?
 
The official Twitter app is horrendously bad. It seems to only show me the last 2 hours of Tweets and often won't load. I've seen the people I sub to drop 25% - they just left Twitter.

Books will be written on how poorly these went and Musk will 100% be at blame.
 
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