I’m sure it’s been said before but if Twitter wants to get away from advertising, this action seems like such a wasted opportunity. In the grand scheme of thin

I’m sure it’s been said before but if Twitter wants to get away from advertising, this action seems like such a wasted opportunity. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t seem all that difficult to have phased in an access fee for the API that’s charged to the app developers. There are lots of ways you could do this. From Twitter’s perspective, they’d get all the advantages of the third party ecosystem while externalising the risk of moving to a paid model. Twitter could have kept the “advertising supported” business to itself, at least for a while, while watching the competing apps settle on a price point. I mean the data this would have given Twitter about monetisation would have been fantastic. And at some point they could have released their own paid version too. Oh well. I suppose Elon knows what he is doing.