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Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]
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The other platforms were used by the advertisers to deploy those ads.
This is an incredibly stupid move.
Brands have almost no way to efficiently manage their Twitter presence now, particularly very large brands.
Elon
Please buy Instagram and TikTok.
Destroy this garbage for the good of mankind.
Think of the children.
Please buy Instagram and TikTok.
Destroy this garbage for the good of mankind.
Think of the children.
RIP Tweetbot. I officially deleted the app from all my iOS devices and cancelled my subscription. By far my most used and favorite iOS app of all time.
Here’s to Twitter burning.
Here’s to Twitter burning.
It wasn't the developer's decision to not show ads, but rather that was the functionality of Twitter's API - ergo, Twitter's decision.
Twitter can do whatever it wants. It's the way this was done to developers and users that stinks.
Great angle!
now less people will use your platform.
This guy is a genius
Two Twitter Blue subscribers disagree with your post. 🤣
You missed a step. Users generate content. If power users generate a large part of the content, and those users also tend to favor 3rd party clients, then it makes zero sense to ban them.
This is something Twitter could have tried to add a subscription for with real value to users.
Owell, the last people left on Twitter that I followed apparently used a 3rd client, and now they have moved to Mastodon. Good for me so I no longer have to check two platforms.
Except they are creating a negative experience for Apple users on the App Store platform, by suddenly changing the promised API access users have been using for 10 years without warning.
Like the unpinterested plugin to strip all that garbage sites results from Google search?
Yeah, we need more of those options the way the internet and Google's search results are going.
Why is Apple offering a platform that Twitter can use for free and make money from it?
Musk is the second richest man in the world (self-made too).
Trust me, he’s no dummy.
Tweetbot, Twitterrific etc. will simply have to find another billionaire’s teets to suckle on.
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He is not. He wanted Twitter to take control of the narrative and make it whatever he wants it to be.
Quite a bit of slowdown when it came to increasing features for 3rd party was because Twitter held back features from the API. There were a few paths that they could have gone down, but Twitter has been rudderless for a long time. Developers did what they could do with the cards they were dealt.
How is he still the CEO of the company? Well, he OWNS the company! The Whole Train Wreck.
Eh…he had a lot of help, including the fact that he was affluent since a young age, massive government subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX, piggy backing on other peoples work, etc. Funnily, this Twitter debacle shows just how much other people do to contribute to his image.
He is the cesspool at Twitter. No, the previous weren’t perfect but at least they were trying to decide how to do the right thing. Musk has an agenda and it has nothing to do with free speech. His agenda is politically motivated and not good at all. Who pays 3 times the known value of a company and expect to fix it? No one.
Yeah, pretty similar to how almost all sites stopped offering RSS seemingly at about the same time a few years ago and have continued to sus out and make it hard for any work arounds.
But at least with RSS you often do go directly to the site to read more and many have ads in their feeds so that seems like more of a over reaction in comparison to this.
The mere whispering of the word Twitter while in a Tesla will send it careening into a wall.
And I for one shall enjoy watching him doing stupid things!