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It makes complete sense though. If Elon wants or has to make Twitter profitable he has to make its advertising more effective. No wonder that, for example, Fa
by znpy 4y ago
It makes complete sense though.
If Elon wants or has to make Twitter profitable he has to make its advertising more effective.
No wonder that, for example, Facebook does not allow any kind of third party apps to interact with the platform.
- the_only_law 4y ago> Facebook does not allow any kind of third party apps to interact with the platform. https://developers.facebook.com/products/ https://developers.facebook.com/products/ So we’re just gonna pretend none of this exists?
- znpy 4y agoIirc none of those libraries allowed you to build alternative facebook clients, whereas iirc the twitter apis did. I remember playing with the twitter apis many years ago, and effectively you could do most things without any official client side and without displaying any advertising. So yeah.
- _djo_ 4y agoI’m not sure it does. In lieu of serving ads, the major clients pay for Twitter V2 API access which they recover from their users through subscriptions. Twitter could have placed ads in the API feed and required certain analytics, it chose not to. Similarly, the revenue from these clients comes from countries where Twitter Blue is not available. Moreover these third party clients are predominantly used by the kinds of power users on the platform who act as a draw for other users to join and stay on Twitter. They have value far in excess of their direct revenue. I can’t see any way that this makes sense from a revenue perspective.