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Official Twitter Statement on Revoking API Access to 3rd Party Devs

80 points by coloneltcb 4y ago

rideontime 4y ago
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optionalsquid 4y ago
I wonder if they are going to clarify what rules the affected apps supposedly broke, but I'm not holding my breath. And there's of course the obvious question as to why no warning was given, if Twitter was suddenly going to start enforcing rules that they had seemingly been ignored for a long time, which to me seems like an obvious thing to do.
- Hamuko 4y ago
  The developer portal in fact says that the developer is going to be mailed with details about the suspension they received on Friday, and they never got an email.
latexr 4y ago
Responses are pretty much what you’d expect. Mostly summed up with¹: > It took you six days to come up with this? ¹ https://twitter.com/ghettoglass/status/1615407637918814208 https://twitter.com/ghettoglass/status/1615407637918814208
_djo_ 4y ago
Pathetic. Look, I get that Musk wanted to get rid of third party apps. I think it was a poor business decision and not well thought through, but if he wants complete control over clients this is the only way to do it. But this is just cowardly. Days of silence and now a clearly false claim of breached policies. At least have the decency and dignity to own the decision.
- papito 4y ago
  At least we are getting a good class in clinical-grade narcissism. Notice how it is never, NEVER his fault.
coloneltcb 4y ago
an unceremonious end to Twitter's fraught relationship with developers, in spite of which some amazing companies sprouted.
wilg 4y ago
Why bother with this drama? Just say "we don't want 3rd party apps anymore" or whatever.
dvngnt_ 4y ago
if reddit ever banned 3rd party apps/RES I would leave. the official apps suck with dark patterns
- lukewrites 4y ago
  Yeah. I only find Reddit usable (by which I guess I mean "readable") when I'm using Apollo. Going to regular reddit is a horrible experience.
kup0 4y ago
This was handled in the least professional, most user-and-dev-hostile way possible (not that I expected anything different)
Laaas 4y ago
I'm honestly not sure what Musk is thinking. Has he gone insane? I can't tell how this makes any sense. Does he just want to piss off people? Is he just scared of saying the truth? Amazing how you can be so clever, yet so socially inept.
- amitrip 4y ago
  fact is, he's not clever

80 points by coloneltcb 4y ago

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I wonder if they are going to clarify what rules the affected apps supposedly broke, but I'm not holding my breath. And there's of course the obvious question as to why no warning was given, if Twitter was suddenly going to start enforcing rules that they had seemingly been ignored for a long time, which to me seems like an obvious thing to do.

Hamuko 4y ago
The developer portal in fact says that the developer is going to be mailed with details about the suspension they received on Friday, and they never got an email.

latexr 4y ago

Responses are pretty much what you’d expect. Mostly summed up with¹: > It took you six days to come up with this? ¹ https://twitter.com/ghettoglass/status/1615407637918814208 https://twitter.com/ghettoglass/status/1615407637918814208

_djo_ 4y ago

Pathetic. Look, I get that Musk wanted to get rid of third party apps. I think it was a poor business decision and not well thought through, but if he wants complete control over clients this is the only way to do it. But this is just cowardly. Days of silence and now a clearly false claim of breached policies. At least have the decency and dignity to own the decision.

papito 4y ago
At least we are getting a good class in clinical-grade narcissism. Notice how it is never, NEVER his fault.

coloneltcb 4y ago

an unceremonious end to Twitter's fraught relationship with developers, in spite of which some amazing companies sprouted.

wilg 4y ago

Why bother with this drama? Just say "we don't want 3rd party apps anymore" or whatever.

dvngnt_ 4y ago

if reddit ever banned 3rd party apps/RES I would leave. the official apps suck with dark patterns

lukewrites 4y ago
Yeah. I only find Reddit usable (by which I guess I mean "readable") when I'm using Apollo. Going to regular reddit is a horrible experience.

kup0 4y ago

This was handled in the least professional, most user-and-dev-hostile way possible (not that I expected anything different)

Laaas 4y ago

I'm honestly not sure what Musk is thinking. Has he gone insane? I can't tell how this makes any sense. Does he just want to piss off people? Is he just scared of saying the truth? Amazing how you can be so clever, yet so socially inept.

amitrip 4y ago
fact is, he's not clever