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I can't say I totally saw this coming, but when Elon started talking about the WeChat/Everything App/X, the writing was on the all for 3rd party clients.

Still, a very shortsighted move.

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Wouldn't a WeChat type of approach mean encouraging third party clients/integrations/etc?

I don't think so, at least for (mobile) clients, but yes for server-side integrations.

Good point. :)

Integrations with third parties? Yes. Clients? No.

The writing has been on the wall for 3rd party clients since Twitter restricted API access the first dozen times pre-Elon.

Except not really, because they reversed course on that, added a bunch of new features, and continued to maintain and update it.

It never had feature parity with the site, but it did get better over time.

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