Holy F! At the very least they need to warn developers ahead of time and give them a lot of time. Those developers may depend on their software for income.
This isn’t right.
This isn’t right.
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Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]
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I quit Twitter a couple months ago, I thought I was going to miss it more, but I haven't really missed it that much.
I love all the enemies that Elon is making. He is creating his own demise
Hooray, let’s turn Twitter into a burning dumpster fire.
Welcome to “free” Twitter, where it gets censorship as powerful as certain country in the world which we do not name.
Thankfully I don’t sink hours Of my Time everyday on Twitter.
Welcome to “free” Twitter, where it gets censorship as powerful as certain country in the world which we do not name.
Thankfully I don’t sink hours Of my Time everyday on Twitter.
Let’s hope this massively backfires as everyone knows not to trust Elon Musk. My next car will be an EV but it wont be a Tesla. I don’t trust him.
Twitter had promised an Ad API for their development community years ago with a revenue share. They never delivered on it.
Ahem, he is still too big to fail, unless something major happen that crashes everything he has, which I doubt it will come.
And do in terms of market share with iOS being over 50%. Apparently he wants Apple banned in the EU "because I'm mad!"
Plus the app, regardless of the content being presented, has gotten worst. Glitchy crap that you can witness just by loading it and just watch it. It's like they gave the app dev over newbie devs.
I personally don’t see what’s wrong with the official app, have tried Tweetbot and similar apps, wasn’t really a fan.
Bad example. Twitter lives because of content and discussions. After 10+ years they banned apps that many users used. Those users may well walk (I will) and they will have less users which = less revenue from ads. Horse was out of the barn and they chose to take the worst approach they could. Should have given users a 1 year notice and improved their own crappy app.
lmfao, the real reason you shouldn't buy a Tesla is because it'll probably kill you or break in a way you wouldn't expect
the sad part is super easy to make a change to the API that would still put the ads in the feeds from the API....
With respect, that is complete and utter shash - for two reasons:
1. If there were evidence of certain third-party clients posting spam (both Tweetbot and Twitteriffic did not do this and weren't capable of doing this), then Twitter could've revoked those specific apps' access. They didn't; they blatted the entire third-party ecosystem.
2. Twitter themselves have said developers are not able to "create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications." That wipes out third-party clients, so how on Earth you thought this was to reduce spam and bots is beyond me.
Really? DHL and UPS have APIs to allow clients to book shipments. You don't have to use the actual DHL/UPS app to book a shipment - you can call it via a number of other apps, and via a simple curl command. In DHL and UPS's case, the client generally doesn't pay them to use their API; they make their money off the actual shipments booked. With Twitter, developers paid to have access to the API so Twitter were already making money off them.
It wouldn't bother me at all if Apple pulled Twitter from the App store.
It's become a hot mess since Musk's takeover.
It's become a hot mess since Musk's takeover.
Just remembered that I had an account. Ive just logged on and deleted it
ExACTly.
My eyes can't roll outta my head hard enough.
Way to miss the entire point.
I mean….. Makes sense. Want to control the user experience. Make it yourself. lol…. They are the only social media platform that you can replace the app. But I get it though. A lot of companies and way of lives for people literally just changed with a few key strokes.
I don't know any of the details of the stalkeriffic features built into Twitter advertising, but I assume there are plenty.
That said, the presence of them doesn't change any of what they could have done to monetize 3rd party API access had they so desired.
They could have served lower-value ads without the cyberstalking features to get at least some monetization. It would have been worth less than the "full" advertising experience, but would have resulted in some revenue. For whatever reason, they have gone years without bothering to do even that minimal amount of monetization.
They also could have updated the API to include the additional tracking and monetization features they wanted The latter would have been more engineering effort on both ends, but clearly their first-party client has a means to do this, as do other non-client uses of their API, so it's certainly a solvable problem if they wanted full monetization from 3rd party clients.
They could also have extracted more money than the ads were worth from users who really wanted a 3rd party app by using some other form of direct payment in lieu of advertising. Twitter grossed ~$1.6B in its most profitable quarter on ~200M active users, so the average active Twitter user is worth about $2.67/month. Requiring the $8/month Twitter Blue for accounts through 3rd party clients would, one assumes, have been a net gain in profit even without ads in the feed.
"I just deleted an abandoned account, that'll show Elon!"
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