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This is absolutely humiliating for these 3rd party people. Twitter shows no respect whatsoever for these devs.

You wanna shut them down to show more ads? Fine. But at least communicate and let them know upfront. What a sh*t show.

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> Twitter shows no respect whatsoever for these devs.

Or for the users of those apps.

Or the workers

There's probably a distorted view there where the percentage of overall users using third-party clients is absolutely minuscule, but if you look at the percentage of content _creators_ it's much larger. At least I remember reading it was like that around the time that I stopped using Twitter a few years ago.

Pretty much everyone who does this stuff for a job (social media managers, etc) is using third-party clients.

For a couple people in my social network this was the final straw. They're gone now and will never come back.

> Or for the users of those apps

Is this the sound of nails hammering into Twitter Blue's coffin? An obvious premium feature would have been API tokens.

Yeah that seems like a no-brainer, but I suppose Musk wants tight control over how Twitter is used. It's harder to herd users around with third-party clients rendering user-undesired changes moot.

It's not the first time we've seen something like this. Youtube is infamously harsh on alternative clients and Spotify went from the most developer-friendly streaming service to one of the least friendly… the former because third party clients can cut out ads, the latter because third party clients stymy efforts to drive users towards more profitable content instead of what they really want to listen to.

Third party clients also don't really mesh with Musk's "everything app" aspirations but that's probably moot because I don't see Twitter becoming one of those any time soon.

Is Twitter a gatekeeper in context of the new EU digital markets act? Perhaps this is an illegal move.

You mean Elon Musk

It’s not ‘Twitter’ showing no respect. Let’s stop beating around the bush, it’s one person.

Oh please - Twitter has never given a shit about third party clients and has been threatening to do this for a long time now. Devs couldn't even get API keys to authorize new users of their products for the longest time.

It's still shitty that Twitter still hasn't been up front and definitive about the status of the API, none of this is new just because of Elon.

Yeah, this is annoying to me personally because the client I use now doesn't work, but the writing has been on the wall for aaaaaages. The client I use was pulled from the store in 2018 because they hit their token limit.

Yeah, I was at Chirp in 2010 and they couldn’t have been more explicit that they didn’t want people working on third party clients, which made for a weird atmosphere at a developer conference.

But it took Musk to actually pull the plug, he could have turned it around.

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