I’m surprised that acquisition isn’t part any strategy to constrain 3rd party apps. Acquiring the top few apps would soften the PR blow and retain users. It’d b

I’m surprised that acquisition isn’t part any strategy to constrain 3rd party apps. Acquiring the top few apps would soften the PR blow and retain users. It’d bring back on board some crack dev/product people who’ve already managed to create better apps than Twitter Corp was able to forge from it’s earlier acquired official app. The cost would have been nominal in the grand scheme (the devs would have had little choice but to acquiesce). It may yet happen. To me, that it hasn’t, we’ll this indicates the block is temporary, showing who’s boss before introducing a new rule like paid users only, or ad exposure. Either way, it’s an Emperor level decision. Would love to have seen the internal heat when the decision was mandated.