Official Twitter Statement on Revoking API Access to 3rd Party Devs

Pathetic.

Look, I get that Musk wanted to get rid of third party apps. I think it was a poor business decision and not well thought through, but if he wants complete control over clients this is the only way to do it.

But this is just cowardly. Days of silence and now a clearly false claim of breached policies.

At least have the decency and dignity to own the decision.

I'm honestly not sure what Musk is thinking. Has he gone insane? I can't tell how this makes any sense. Does he just want to piss off people? Is he just scared of saying the truth? Amazing how you can be so clever, yet so socially inept.

I wonder if they are going to clarify what rules the affected apps supposedly broke, but I'm not holding my breath. And there's of course the obvious question as to why no warning was given, if Twitter was suddenly going to start enforcing rules that they had seemingly been ignored for a long time, which to me seems like an obvious thing to do.

Responses are pretty much what you’d expect. Mostly summed up with¹:

> It took you six days to come up with this?

¹ https://twitter.com/ghettoglass/status/1615407637918814208

This was handled in the least professional, most user-and-dev-hostile way possible (not that I expected anything different)

Why bother with this drama? Just say "we don't want 3rd party apps anymore" or whatever.

if reddit ever banned 3rd party apps/RES I would leave.

the official apps suck with dark patterns

an unceremonious end to Twitter's fraught relationship with developers, in spite of which some amazing companies sprouted.