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It looks like this is going to hit clients like Twitterific/Tweetbot pretty hard https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996784838349910016 https://twitter.com/Big
by ProfessorLayton 8y ago
It looks like this is going to hit clients like Twitterific/Tweetbot pretty hard https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996784838349910016 https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996784838349910016
It's sad to see how Twitter is treating 3rd party devs, and "engaged" users — the kind of users willing to buy a 3rd party app to use their services. Furthermore, these engaged users bring their value to the platform by bringing in eyeballs from less engaged audiences rather than clicking on ads themselves.
- Boulth 8y agoFor Twitter third party clients are basically competition so it's not surprising that they make API access as limited as possible. Furthermore because of network effects they are not afraid that a significant number of people will leave the platform.
- ymolodtsov 8y agoWell, they could try to compete and make decent apps first.
- sp332 8y agoAs long as they're showing the ad-tweets, they're not competition.
- solarkraft 8y agoFor some reason they're treating them like competition. Hopefully they'll actually become competition and push users (the engaged ones who fed twitter to its current state and are dissatisfied now) to use Mastodon.