Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 • Hacker News Board

The question I have with this move is why didn't Twitter just force advertising as part of their API for third party clients? Just change the TOS for using the API so if they didn't show advertising they would be cut off. What am I missing?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

#7

Post by tills13 » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:01 PM UTC

I don't _really_ get it. Wouldn't it have been easier to work with these platforms and mandate that they show promoted tweets the same as the official app? I imagine Elon also downsized the official app teams so why not outsource some of that work to third parties and let them figure out monetization?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

#8

Post by ducktective » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:02 PM UTC

ask_b123 wrote: post #3

alexktz wrote: post #2

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What does this mean?

Apparently "king" is the new fashion word for cool guy, chad, bro

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

#9

Post by fizx » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:02 PM UTC

All 3rd party clients shut down is the best case for twitter.

All 3rd party clients migrate their users to Mastodon, while simultaneously solving the UX and approachability problems that have hampered Mastodon, sure seems like the worst case scenario for twitter.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

#10

Post by iameli » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:02 PM UTC

And so ends my daily use of Twitter. I still haven't been able to get into Mastodon in the same way, but if Ivory is as good as Tweetbot was it might bring me around.