Glenn FleishmanI just figured out why Elon Musk pulled the plug abruptly on third-party Twitter apps. It’s an experiment. He’s not communicatinganything he’s doing for that reason. He’s looking at metrics to see if killing third-party apps' access to the API results in a reduction in usage and engagement that makes him think he should re-enable it, and then issue a false apology or whatever.
Thomas Røst Stenerud@glennf I think it’s ok to remember that Twitter did something similar years ago (but less dramatic):
the API used to be open and in the early years of Twitter, the app-marked pushed a lot of the innovation on the site. Quite a lot of features, gestures and functionality made their debut through third-party innovation.
As Tw grew and wanted (more) control over it’s users ad-experience, Tw launched it’s native free app and 3rd-party-app-users were made to pay.