> For Twitter, developers prevented monetization. Except that they didn't. There wasn't even any discussion, it was just "We're capping OAuth tokens.". Develo

> For Twitter, developers prevented monetization. Except that they didn't. There wasn't even any discussion, it was just "We're capping OAuth tokens.". Developers offered to pay for access, users offered to pay for the ability to use 3rd party apps. If they didn't want to go down that path then Twitter could've easily required developers to show monetised tweets/ads.