> [Twitter's] popularity depends on a vibrant ecosystem of third-party clients and bots that run on their API, and they wouldn't want to risk losing that. The

> [Twitter's] popularity depends on a vibrant ecosystem of third-party clients and bots that run on their API, and they wouldn't want to risk losing that. The reality is that nobody is paying a subscription to use a chat app. So they have to monetize the same way as always: ads and company bots. And that's at odds with the third-party ecosystem where they'll just block the ads and the company bots. This is just the same thing as always. It just hasn't been ruined yet.