> The point is to kill third party applications. Social media companies watched Facebook do it with little outrage, and quite a bit of upside -- they completely

> The point is to kill third party applications. Social media companies watched Facebook do it with little outrage, and quite a bit of upside -- they completely control the user experience, all by squeezing out 3rd parties slowly and without fanfare. Twitter and reddit want to benefit from that as well, but don't have the political savvy to pull it off without protest. What exactly do you mean by "political savvy?" The lacking the impulsiveness to make abrupt changes? The ability to accurately foresee the reaction to their changes, and change plans to minimize the negative ones? Were there ever any popular 3rd party clients for Facebook? I don't recall any. Maybe the smart thing that Facebook did was keep control from the start. People don't typically get mad when they lose something they never had in the first place.