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why are all these people so up in arms about this?

• ilogik 4y ago
  because twitter just blocked the API keys to the most popular third party apps, without any messaging whatsoever.
• cinntaile 4y ago
  If you (plan to) shut down an API, it's kinda nice if you communicate this beforehand rather than just pulling the plug and keeping everyone in the dark.
• Lutger 4y ago
  I believe because it shows how much we depend on good behavior of Big Tech (or Big anything really) and are at their mercy. I think most people do generally have the expectation of big corps leadership behaving somewhat decently most of the times, at least publicly, and not being totally disrespectful since that harms their reputation. Musk goes against that expectation, quite spectacularly. This is changing the game somewhat, people also are up in arms about google shutting down useful services even when they give many months notice - this is far, far worse.
• lawgimenez 4y ago
  Might try directing this question to the user's who paid for Tweetbot's yearly plan and won't be able to use it anymore.
  • smcl 4y ago
    I'm one of those Tweetbot users. If I'm honest its like ~1 USD a month (29 CZK), so for me at least the money isn't really a huge deal. It was just a bit confusing not knowing wtf was happening and whether it'd be reversed (clearly now we know it won't be)