Twitter officially bans third-party clients after cutting off prominent devs

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8 pointstaubek4 comments

Oh dear. Better that it's official than just swimming in ambiguity sea though I guess.

Tbh this is totally reasonable.

You can't have an alternative client which is ad free competing with your own service (or where the third party adds their own ads).

It means that Twitter also can address those use cases and get that feedback.

It's a fairly simple app after all it's not like Shopify, WordPress etc needing a plugin ecosystem.

Although - would have been better to provide some official path to license or consume API etc

1) Several of these clients had a huge role in building Twitter in the first place.

2) So add ads to the API and enforce that the clients show them.

> Tbh this is totally reasonable.

From whose point of view?

> You can't have an alternative client which is ad free competing with your own service

That consideration is irrelevant for the end user. It is up to Twitter to design their business in a way which is sustainable.