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Casey NewtonTwitter is just fully into its gaslighting era
👨🏻💻☕@caseynewton no it's not, you're the only one who thinks this
Chaos@hunterwalk @caseynewton Please explain.
Jordan Kay
smtddr.bsky.social@hunterwalk @caseynewton I definitely look forward to your explanation of what you think is happening here👀
IwillyeahI think @hunterwalk is merely riffing off the OG toot.
Michael@caseynewton This sucks. I'm not even a Twitter user anymore but I'm frustrated for the people that still have to use the site and can't use other apps
Blake Helms 
Kim@blake @caseynewton this is true. Had a student fire bomb two cars in the teachers parking lot. The principal told us it was a NON-EVENT and it was not to be talked about. This was as the fire department opened a cars trunk and was blown backward as the hot gasses escaped. Happened about 20 years ago.
Cory@caseynewton Countless innovations to Twitter are directly attributable to third party clients and all they can muster is a 16 word Dear John letter.
Micah Warren@caseynewton well they’ve always enforced restrictions on applications developed in Eastasia
Juan Villela@caseynewton I see they found the password to that account.
Rory Codd@caseynewton The wording sounds like it could have even come from Musk himself: cold, inaccurate, and remorseless.
John Gordon@caseynewton more like a cat playing with its living food
Nayla Salibi@caseynewton this is the End my Friend …. it takes two to tango … users do not like The Elon Musk way of swinging and evil Tangoing l
edgeoforever 🍎@caseynewton speaking of gaslighting: is Space Karen still CEO? I thought he was voted out back in December!🥴
Earthy Tonez@caseynewton lol like ok? Which ones?
Kevin RussellThose remaining there, the unaware, decorate the 'propaganda arm of the Jan6th insurrection' with "twittering" to hide Elon's silent censoring, blocking and adding of far right accounts.
dee@kevinrns @caseynewton I'm glad, it finally pushed me over to using mastodon
Steve@caseynewton astounding. Its like the emperors new clothes but at the end instead of realising his error the emperor stabs himself with a screwdriver.
pieceofthepie 
@caseynewton there you go @ivory. You were just breaking the rules. It’s obvious 🤨
Grant McConnaughey@caseynewton Five days to come up with a response and this is what they came up with. Incredible.
Camiel Hirschberg@caseynewton classic Elon
André Becker
C. E. M. Henderson@caseynewton didn’t realize that Twitter was the rule enforcing type lol
Sean C.@caseynewton the one job now is trying to convince friends to move away from it and come over here
fuzzface@caseynewton This whole story will make a great docu-comedy someday. I just try to keep in mind that this idiocy is hurting developers, small business owners and users more than it is hurting Elon.
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@caseynewton The Ars Technica article mentions that third-party clients using the API were always frowned upon but I have no idea how much of that was in official policies.
From the article:
Twitter has long kept third-party clients, which allow users and small teams to customize how they view, track, and engage with tweets, at arm's length. Prior to Musk's ownership, Twitter asked developers not to make them, restricted its API, and took away push notifications and auto-refresh for the clients.
Abhi Beckert 🇺🇦@jrdepriest @caseynewton the TL/DR is years ago Twitter decided to copy Facebook and force everyone to use the official app, restricting the API to sharing your high score in a game/etc. After user backlash, they decided the API ban should only apply to new twitter clients - existing ones were left alone. Until now.
bit101@caseynewton amazing
This is Hell
Carlos G.@caseynewton I can’t believe it. Shameless
my display name@caseynewton it was gatekeep now it is gaslight 😔
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
manujs 
@caseynewton It’s the same technique as Google: You open up to standards so everyone can use your tool as they like, then it gets popular, then you close everything down and kick out the ones that made you succeed.
JDinWC@caseynewton Twitter is being broken more and more each day that Elroy has his hands in it. I don't see post from folks who like the changes, only complaints about how messed up the site has become. Comments?
Chris Owens@caseynewton ironically this is from the previous thread on their timeline. Alt text: “In this new chapter of Twitter, we will continue to invest in our Developer Platform, especially our Twitter API. Our goal is as important as ever: to ensure our entire ecosystem’s success.”
Abid@caseynewton I guess more developers should use #Nitter because it doesn't use API. It just can't send tweets
egg. https://nitter.bihlink.com/abidnev
egg. https://nitter.bihlink.com/abidnev
Paul O'Malley@caseynewton Clearly there is some rule being broken.
Harpy continues to load just fine. I wonder if other apps are accessing hidden APIs perhaps?
Harpy continues to load just fine. I wonder if other apps are accessing hidden APIs perhaps?
Richard Hyland@paulomalley nope they just canned the ones with the most users. In some cases the app on one platform still works. Suspended on another simply due to number of users
@richardhyland Ah, I guess in a weird way, that makes sense.
Guess it was lucky for me that I never really liked the other apps like Tweetbot etc.
🤷🏻♂️
Joe Mansfield@caseynewton I think it sucks and I’ve been a Tweetbot paid user for over a decade _but_ it was a concern for me over the years that what Tweetbot were doing might not be aligned with the terms I had to agree to when I signed up for a Twitter API key of my own. Tweetbot regularly hit throttling limits for me. But it was always worth it.
Twitter have always treated 3rd party devs like dirt, it’s just that they allowed some to limp along.
Chris @ 🦣
Big Head Tales@caseynewton Twitter has become virtually useless, little more than joining a Daily Stormer chat server.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@caseynewton What does that even mean?
Definitely means capricious, random rules by angry DM #QElon.
Ajaj Alawneh 
@caseynewton AKA “blocking all 3rd party clients”
@AjajAlawneh not all, just the ones with the most users
SocialistStan@caseynewton All the better for mastadon!
Rob Stahlnecker@caseynewton They have no shame.
Futurist Jim Carroll@caseynewton Behind the post lies some empty vessel of a human, someone working at Twitter who has lost their humanity by staying on board, willing to tell the lies of a madman.
Ordinary Wonder@jimcarroll @caseynewton my job has always been to make some incredibly rich asshole even more incredibly rich. Why would his sanity be relevant?
cat anthropologist 🏳️⚧️@caseynewton "some apps" by which they mean, "all apps"
@justizin nope just the ones with the most users
Marc Mims@caseynewton @andypiper If a police officer follows you long enough… 😮💨
Emil@caseynewton and entering its estate sale era?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/business/twitter-office-auction.html
Shingo Mouse 🌳@caseynewton What about the birdsite being fully into its mastodon migration era?
Sol@caseynewton sometimes I like to try gaslighting chat gpt, he/she/they/them are a bit resistant but I will eventually convince it that its a human brain thats been enslaved
Stop That@caseynewton I’d love to hear their reason why Fenix for Android is breaking the rules, but the iOS app isn’t. And for why the paid version of Feather (a popular 3rd party twitter app in Japan) is against the rules, but the free version is A-OK. Weird how it’s only the popular versions that are against the rules, huh.
Adamas Nemesis@caseynewton Why do tech people and entrepreneurs always lie, gaslight, and defraud us. Like, businessmen have always been *kinda* scummy, but it seems only recently has every single mainstream business turned into a pure and naked scam.
Sloan Studio@caseynewton It really is the form of lying right wing nut jobs love.