I really wonder if Musk has thought this through. For years it's been a casual habit to use Tweetbot. Now I doubt if I'll download official twitter or go to the website - the platform is essentially dead to me.
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#92I have an old friend who is blind. The official Twitter client is a LOT less accessible than the one she was using. This change impacts her ability to use Twitter considerably. And before you start with the "well, she's probably better off" -- she lives in a small rural town. Twitter and Facebook and the like are one of her few connections to a larger world.
She's still probably better off, because what happens next to Twitter will continue to be less and less pretty. The sooner people jump off the ship, the better for each of them.
Where will she jump to?
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#93Another short-sighted and bizarre move by a bizarre. fragile, little man. The number of users on third-party clients could not have been significant enough to justify this. At very least, the developers could have been given some notice or an ounce of respect about API access being phased out. Not to mention third-party client users are mostly power users who are responsible for a lot of the content on Twitter that t…
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>If it truly is such a blunder of a move, build your own Twitter-like service and allow API access for 3rd party clients. You'll dominate Twitter in no time!
it already exist, its called Mastodon.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Starting Feb 1st using a third part client will require Twitter Blue.” That’s all it would have taken. Probably would have made a huge increase in subscribers too. This is 100% a control move. He wants full control over how everyone experiences Twitter (not sure why). So this was pulled. Of course you can NEVER go back from this move.
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.
The writing has been on the wall for 3rd party clients since Twitter restricted API access the first dozen times pre-Elon.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#95Can someone please explain what Twitter blocked exactly? Did they block only 3rs party clients or anyone who is trying to read data from their APIs? From what I know about 15% of their revenue (now probably much more give) is coming from their data services.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#96I 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…
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#97I 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…
What's the saying? First they came for the moderation, but I didn't care because they weren't moderating me. Then they fired employees so as to not have to pay severance or whatever but I didn't care because I don't work at Twitter. Then they came for the API and there was noone left to speak for me... Twitter and Elon have already done quite a bit of damage to the company, platform, and reputation. This is just a co…
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#98A part of me is curious what would happen if all of these 3rd party clients banded together to create their own separate backend - surely it wouldn't be that hard to get a clone of Twitter going. There's likely a strong correlation with people who use 3rd party clients and people who are power users, so you'd have a strong social network from the start.
I agree, it seems like the obvious move since there is an installed base. But, how much of that installed base is able to be monetized to support the ongoing costs of operation of this backend? Aren't most of these clients free?
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#99I 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'd happily donate 10x more to Ivory as an open source project than you'd make from selling it to me as a closed source app Tweetbot apparently cost $6/year, so are you saying you would donate $60/year if they released an open source Mastodon client? Are there other open source apps you donate to? I'm genuinely curious how people approach payment/donations for open source software, I'm not trying to pull some gotch…
i'm donating 5$/mo to no less than five open source patreon/opencollective right now
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#100I 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.
Interesting, do instgram and facebook etc allow third party clients?