Futurist Jim CarrollFeb 2, 2023

Elon Musk is really an imbecile, an idiot disguised in the persona of faux-brilliance.

This is not about cutting off an API.

This is about destroying any remaining shred of trust with the developer community. With trust gone, there is only a burning pile of, well, no developers.

He wanted to build an 'everything app.' The idea now is just LOL. What developer would dare to commit any time and effort to someone who has destroyed TRUST.

TRUST is everything. When its gone, it doesn't come back.

Show threadJeff Enderwick
@jimcarroll twitter servers can’t really know what app they’re interacting with. Prove me wrong.
Feb 2, 2023 at 9:10pmWeb
Show threadmithlondFeb 6, 2023
@jeff7091 @jimcarroll Not by app. By API key.
Show threadJeff EnderwickFeb 6, 2023
@mithlond @jimcarroll which can be revealed by MITM attack.
Show threadmithlondFeb 7, 2023
@jeff7091 @jimcarroll guessing the key isn’t shipped with the app, but who knows 🤷‍♂️
Show threadJeff EnderwickFeb 7, 2023
@mithlond @jimcarroll since the official twitter app can be reverse engineered, a 3rd party app can use the same API/key as the official app.
Show threadFuturist Jim CarrollFeb 7, 2023

@jeff7091 @mithlond

Even if that is the case, why would any developer want to devote any time whatsoever to investing time in that? Trust matters.

Show threadJeff EnderwickFeb 7, 2023

@jimcarroll @mithlond it leaves developers with the power to create systems that interact with twitter without the consent of Elmo.

He can’t reliably stop them without some form of attestation from the user’s OS.