Federico Viticci Jan 15, 2023

Let's pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:

Apps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online – unceremoniously killed off by a clown who thinks he's the smartest guy around because he has money.

These apps didn't deserve to end up like this.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs

Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party

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@viticci Eh.
As an Android user, Third-party apps were already dead for like four or more years at this point, so Twitter was basically dead to me for a long time before this point.

Musky just pinned the final nail in the coffin at this point.
As someone who only ever used Tweetdeck, Falcon 2, a bit of Tweetbot and even Core/Cawbird, Twitter Web is a mess and the mobile app is a joke of design and UX.
Guess it's nice that people now are recognizing this, even if it's a bit late.

Jan 15, 2023 at 10:03pmTooth