The sad thing is that third-party apps are actually good for twitter. Musk continues to cut his nose to spite his face.
A lot of these users are just going away - not migrating to a different app.
- Twitter apps had the reputation at one point of being “UI playgrounds” — a good place for designers to experiment with different ideas around presentation of the feed; while Twitter didn’t directly benefit from it, these apps provided a massive amount of design iteration that enabled Twitter to steal the best ideas