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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by graublau »

wstuartcl wrote: post #89
cmelbye wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which 3rd party apps specifically were used by marketers and are now banned?

Having worked with many PR/Marketing/Media brand teams I do not know of one group that utilized twitter client in any of their workflows -- they all used a mix of third party clients for reading and other integrations/clients for posting and managing conversations and ad work. Sure much of the API surface area for latter still works but there was a goodly portion of impacted folks on these clients that were the same…

I've never seen a PR/Marketing tweet from any of the bespoke artisanal apps (tweetbot, twitterific etc) Hootsuite, buffer are web apps, not for "ride or die" iOS nerds

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by eddieroger »

tptacek wrote: post #87

If you're not paying attention to Mastodon now, a think to know about Tapbots and Ivory, their new ActivityPub client, is that their TestFlight betas, which they release in batches of a thousand or so at a time, last for just a couple minutes before they're all snapped up; there seems to be pretty huge demand for it. With a decent client (I've bounced around a couple of them so far), even in a beta state, the experie…

There are also lots of other interesting clients not from Tapbots. If losing Tweetbot was enough to make you look at Mastodon, keep that open mind and look at all the interesting clients out there.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by CharlesW »

ceejayoz wrote: post #67
Someone1234 wrote: post #52

Everyone 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.

They're unaffected; the ban is specific to replicating the Twitter.com / first-party app experience. Exact wording: "a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications".

> They're unaffected…

This seems plausible, but has there been any official confirmation?

If I'm Elon, my next act of ecosystem warfare is to monetize remaining API use cases to within an inch of their life.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by dom96 »

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by barnabee »

akovaski wrote: post #83
barnabee wrote: post #47

I 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 would donate $10 per month to a decent open source Mastodon client, at least while I was using it regularly (and would have done so for Tweetbot).

I donate to a number of open source projects, a decent number of them regularly. I am lucky enough to be able to afford to buy software when I need to and donate to projects I think are worthy of support. It makes me extremely happy every time I am able to donate to an open source project instead of buying software. It makes me sick every time I capitulate and end up renting softare. Software subscriptions can die in a fire.

I'd encourage you to donate if you can afford to, but if you can't, that's ok.

A world dominated by open computing platforms and software is such an exciting prospect that it's worth putting a bit of money and effort into. And if that doesn't pan out, at least you helped the maintainers a little!

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by erk__ »

seydor wrote: post #100
wstuartcl wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

One of the tools used is Buffer [0], and they seem to support both Instagram and Facebook, and it seems that they are going to continue with Twitter as well.

[0]: https://buffer.com

Note: They seem to support "Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile"

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by throwaway092345 »

jjulius wrote: post #79
throwaway092345 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"Don't criticize if you can't do better," is never a good take.

That's not the point at all.

Regarding the personal attack - is Zuckerberg also a "bizarre, fragile, little man" since Instagram doesn't allow 3rd party clients?

Regarding the validity of this move by Twitter - a private company is making changes which they believe are in line with their business goals. Who cares? Why get so riled up about it?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by bcrl »

akovaski wrote: post #83
barnabee wrote: post #47

I 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…

Linux Weekly News ended up with this kind of model. A long time ago back in 2002, LWN was about to shut down, but those of us in the Linux community found it had tremendous value and asked for options to pay, as well as options to pay more. Here we are 2 decades later and LWN is still around! Sometimes it pays to let your users help out financially.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by ericzawo »

The sabre rattling from the VC class of people who roll with (or think they do) Elon is extremely disappointing. Anyone without skin in the game would be hard pressed to characterize this new Twitter as going well by literally any metric.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by sosodev »

jjulius wrote: post #79
throwaway092345 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"Don't criticize if you can't do better," is never a good take.

Do you think so? Sure, it's usually a dismissive remark but criticism is usually equally low effort.

I believe our world would be better off if the millions of critics actually tried to do better than the things they criticize. The vast majority of them would fail but would likely learn to be more understanding.

The few that succeed would probably make something that is actually better than the competition!

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