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

80 pointsby 3y agotwitter.com
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3y agoHN ↗

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.

3y agoHN ↗

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.

3y agoHN ↗

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.

3y agoHN ↗

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

3y agoHN ↗

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

3y agoHN ↗

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

3y agoHN ↗

if reddit ever banned 3rd party apps/RES I would leave.

the official apps suck with dark patterns

3y agoHN ↗

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.

3y agoHN ↗

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

3y agoHN ↗

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.