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> Twitter shows no respect whatsoever for these devs. Or for the users of those apps.
by bachmeier 4y ago
> Twitter shows no respect whatsoever for these devs.
Or for the users of those apps.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoOr the workers
- tazjin 4y agoThere's probably a distorted view there where the percentage of overall users using third-party clients is absolutely minuscule, but if you look at the percentage of content _creators_ it's much larger. At least I remember reading it was like that around the time that I stopped using Twitter a few years ago.
- TillE 4y agoPretty much everyone who does this stuff for a job (social media managers, etc) is using third-party clients.
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoFor a couple people in my social network this was the final straw. They're gone now and will never come back.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Or for the users of those apps Is this the sound of nails hammering into Twitter Blue's coffin? An obvious premium feature would have been API tokens.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoYeah that seems like a no-brainer, but I suppose Musk wants tight control over how Twitter is used. It's harder to herd users around with third-party clients rendering user-undesired changes moot. It's not the first time we've seen something like this. Youtube is infamously harsh on alternative clients and Spotify went from the most developer-friendly streaming service to one of the least friendly… the former because third party clients can cut out ads, the latter because third party clients stymy efforts to drive users towards more profitable content instead of what they really want to listen to. Third party clients also don't really mesh with Musk's "everything app" aspirations but that's probably moot because I don't see Twitter becoming one of those any time soon.