Chris TrottierYeah, I think Twitter can go f*ck off with their so-called "developer" agreement.
Here's what devs will actually do.
They'll politely give Twitter the middle finger, and then continue to build out the Fediverse ecosystem.
Elon Musk is going to quickly discover he's not the only game in town, and developers have time and resources to build something else.
The tech press doesn't understand that Twitter just killed the only thing that ever made them innovative:
3rd party access to their API
This should be a bigger story because, in reality, almost all of Twitter innovations came from 3rd parties -- including the word "tweet" itself.
The most impressive thing about Twitter's meltdown is how much Elon Musk doesn't understand its core value.
Again, with no 3rd party API access, there's no technological innovation on Twitter.
Mike Garuccio@atomicpoet idk I think how weirdly unnecessary it is may rank even higher. I get they want to monetize those users, but 10 minutes of thinking about it would yield a ton of ideas that do that better while pissing off way fewer people. Force third party’s to show ads, tie api access for users to blue, or even just charge devs for access. Phase it in carefully and add a feature or two and they probably could have gotten away with all three.