I hope tweetdeck sticks around. I know it's been officialized, but it has been on life support and doesn't support many of the "excellent features" that the mainsite wants you to "experience".
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#52Everyone is talking about mobile clients, but what about social media companies and businesses that integrated Twitter into their CRMs? At the very least I know businesses that had Twitter directly into their Salesforce, SAP Cloud Integration, and even Teams via Power Automate.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't say I totally saw this coming, but when Elon started talking about the WeChat/Everything App/X, the writing was on the all for 3rd party clients. Still, a very shortsighted move.
Wouldn't a WeChat type of approach mean encouraging third party clients/integrations/etc?
I don't think so, at least for (mobile) clients, but yes for server-side integrations.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't say I totally saw this coming, but when Elon started talking about the WeChat/Everything App/X, the writing was on the all for 3rd party clients. Still, a very shortsighted move.
Wouldn't a WeChat type of approach mean encouraging third party clients/integrations/etc?
Integrations with third parties? Yes. Clients? No.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#55I don't think they realise the damage this change has done. I have been on board with or ambivalent about most of the changes. I don't care if there's less moderation, I think Twitter probably did have too many employees, and I like the idea of a paid account with fewer (preferably no) ads. I'd even have happily paid Twitter to continue using Tweetbot. But this has destroyed the trust and the user experience of many…
I also do not think Musk understands just who the primary userbase on many of these 3rd party apps were -- many of those pesky advertisers/brands that he seems to be both courting and at war with exclusively use api apps for tracking posting/responding and integrations.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#56Won't this hurt Elon in the long run? I was never able to stand the official Twitter app it's filled with ads and irrelevant clutter. I think since moving to Android Tweetbot is one of the few apps I miss from having on my phone. I was still enjoying the Mac version. I guess I will stick to Nitter [0] from now on. [0] - https://nitter.net/
There is also Nitter for Android (WebView-app), but source repo not available for a month already.[0,1]
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#57It was always odd to me that entire businesses relied on what was essentially the goodwill of a corporation. I think the same about things like microG in the Android world. They just… use Google’s API without paying and yet we think it’ll all work out?
Acessing APIs from 3rd party clients isn't "goodwill" and should be legally protected.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#58I don't think they realise the damage this change has done. I have been on board with or ambivalent about most of the changes. I don't care if there's less moderation, I think Twitter probably did have too many employees, and I like the idea of a paid account with fewer (preferably no) ads. I'd even have happily paid Twitter to continue using Tweetbot. But this has destroyed the trust and the user experience of many…
Keep in mind that "fewer ads" is (and likely will forever be) "coming soon," because Elon promised it before doing the math.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#59I don't think they realise the damage this change has done. I have been on board with or ambivalent about most of the changes. I don't care if there's less moderation, I think Twitter probably did have too many employees, and I like the idea of a paid account with fewer (preferably no) ads. I'd even have happily paid Twitter to continue using Tweetbot. But this has destroyed the trust and the user experience of many…
I also do not think Musk understands just who the primary userbase on many of these 3rd party apps were -- many of those pesky advertisers/brands that he seems to be both courting and at war with exclusively use api apps for tracking posting/responding and integrations.
Which 3rd party apps specifically were used by marketers and are now banned?
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#60I wonder how much savings in infrastructure is getting musk from this move.
Driving users away is one good way at lowering hosting costs, that's true.