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Twitter devs are being systematically intimidated, acquired and shutdown. There are credible rumors that the most popular 3rd-party clients will be summarily de

• lazerwalker 14y ago
  People will complain, and the vast majority of Twitter users will continue to use Twitter, albeit via first-party clients. It sucks for third-party devs, and it sucks for us power Twitter users who like our third-party clients, but look at every time Facebook introduces major changes: people huff and puff about switching to something else (Google+, etc), but the status quo doesn't actually change because the value is in the relationships they've formed on the service, not the way they interface with the service.