Its less a technical issue, and more of a business/political thing. Its twitter's silo, so if they wish to block or severely limit outside systems from integra

Its less a technical issue, and more of a business/political thing. Its twitter's silo, so if they wish to block or severely limit outside systems from integrating with it, twitter will do so. Twitter can pick up their ball, kill the game, head home, and leave everyone without a game to play; philosophically speaking of course. That's the downside of such a centralized platform. So, i would guess - just my guess really - that it would explain why some rock star devs don't hurry and develop such an integration platform. Think about it: what if some devs build some awesome integration tool/platform, and then twitter sees all the outbound traffic (read: affecting their potential revenue)...well, twitter would just kill that access. And all the devs would get frustrated, etc. I would further guess that these devs probably thought, screw that, i'll just leave twitter for good, and simply post on mastodon (or some such/similar open platform), and just help build out this open platform.