Hard to believe they won't artificially stifle or prohibit successful use cases, like every other time people built on Twitter. There used to be a whole ecosys

Hard to believe they won't artificially stifle or prohibit successful use cases, like every other time people built on Twitter. There used to be a whole ecosystem of successful alternate clients, link shorteners, image/video hosting, tweet analytics and other software and it all got deliberately destroyed as Twitter wanted to appropriate the engagement those developers had. https://www.accuracast.com/news/social-media-7471/twitter-bans-third-party-apps/ https://www.accuracast.com/news/social-media-7471/twitter-ba... > In effect ad networks like ‘Sponsored Tweets’ and ‘Ad.ly’ will be discontinued. https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/ https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/17/twitter-4/ > These changes effectively kill off the growth of the third-party client ecosystem as we know it.