This company seems to be lurching from one PR disaster to another. I have never seriously developed a twitter API-based application because as long ago as 2012

This company seems to be lurching from one PR disaster to another. I have never seriously developed a twitter API-based application because as long ago as 2012 the restrictions were already on the uptrend, and the writing was on the wall for anybody betting their application on the Twitter ecosystem. Throw in the declining quality of the average tweet and you have a recipe for a company which opened up a new Internet use case, but never capitalised on it (as others adopt its MO). It reminds me of Xerox Parc, in that in invented something awesome without really understanding what it had created, nor how to use it properly. In my view, Twitter = Yahoo. It won't die, it got there first, but it didn't really "get it", and so it will never win.