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Dan Gillmor Jan 19, 2023

So, finally, Musk's minions have acknowledged why they locked out third-party Twitter clients: The purpose is to force users onto Twitter's own website and apps.

Remember, they lied earlier to justify killing off the competition, claiming violations of the rules. Since there were no violations they could point to, they rewrote the rules.

Anyone who trusts Musk and Twitter at this point is willfully stupid.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html

h/t @andybaio

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Dan Gillmor Jan 19, 2023

Here's what Twitterific -- which did vastly more than Twitter itself to make the service popular in the first place -- had to say about a company "that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer." https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]

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Amar Balikai

@dangillmor loved Twitteriffic. Excited to see development inside the Mastodon ecosystem accelerate from all of this, but will take time for the network effect to kick in.