Twitter actively, intentionally, hamstrung third party clients. First in 2010 with the stupid “Twitter inflection point" and subsequent multiyear decay in the A

Twitter actively, intentionally, hamstrung third party clients. First in 2010 with the stupid “Twitter inflection point" and subsequent multiyear decay in the API, followed by enforcing a hard limit of 100k on application tokens (ie, your app could have up to 100k Twitter accounts authenticated to it, no more). Ostensibly done to drive more traffic to the official timeline for ad insertions. Meta actively discourages third party clients for Facebook and Instagram, IIRC an iOS Instragram client was just spiked in the app store after a complaint from Meta.