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Comment by maxsilver | Hacker News Reader

They killed off the Windows Twitter app a few weeks ago too, replaced it with an iFrame to www.twitter.com

I really don't understand why a social media site so large and influential is spending so little on their own product. Twitter won't let anyone develop any clients, but Twitter itself won't develop any clients either. Twitter acts like they wished no one would log in at all, they act like they're just waiting to be acquired and shut down.

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And they have over 3000 employees. It's quite a mystery to me what all those people could possibly be doing.

Making more buttons into the retweet button.

If anything you'd think they would want native apps to make adblocking harder. If you use tweetbot you dont get ads at all. Kinda why facebook pushes you to their app when you go to the mobile site.

Tweetdeck is still offered as a desktop client. Though these days its is ony available as a webapp via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com or as a Chrome app.

I really don't understand why a social media site so large and influential is spending so little on their own product.

These companies hire the best of the best. QED.

Given the spam and abuse situation going on the platform I really doubt it.

desperate times call for desperate measures:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR/financials?p=TWTR

https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/989610534801637382

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