Not to forget the TwitterAPIpocalypse of 2012 (?), when Twitter heavily restricted its programming interfaces, which decimated the ecology of companies that wer

Not to forget the TwitterAPIpocalypse of 2012 (?), when Twitter heavily restricted its programming interfaces, which decimated the ecology of companies that were built around it, like Flattr (1.0). I surmise that's not unrelated to Mastodon's release in 2016 ? For instance : IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625