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Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by qotgalaxy »

smoldesu wrote: post #119
ericmay wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I agree that people have held out way too long. My more nihilistic interpretation is that taking any of Twitter's functionality for granted was a mistake. It's a publicly traded business, and if you didn't want big money to ruin the experience, you shouldn't have put faith in money in the first place. YouTube is on a similar precipice. People think it's irreplaceable because YouTube displaces every competitor. In tru…

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by [deleted] »

system16 wrote: post #46

Another 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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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by moneywoes »

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…

What’s wrong with mastodon?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by damon_c »

NavinF wrote: post #135
wstuartcl wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that Elon has disbanded the accessibility team at twitter probably already leads them into hot water related to this (It is not uncommon for orgs like twitter to be bound by multiple long term settlements related to accessibility suits that each have obligations of certain deliverables in this area. If your friend truly does have issues navigating the site perhaps she may want to look to a legal remedy -- fr…

Has a social media site ever been forced to accommodate blind people? Serious question.

Every website accessible to the public has some responsibility to accommodate the disabled.

https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/

There are a lot of opportunistic/good hearted compassionate lawyers making a good business of shaking down smaller website operators for ADA compliance.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by billbrown »

alixanderwang wrote: post #197

Why are they having the funeral less than 2 weeks after a "suspension" of the API, after 10+ years of work? Twitter under the new management is making rash decisions but also has been reversing many. I still have Tweetbot app on my phone in hopes that it's temporary. Has there been anything definitive to say that won't be the case?

Where's the poll?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by [deleted] »

kemayo wrote: post #48

Speaking as someone who had mostly been using the first party twitter app in recent years and so wouldn't have been impacted by this even if I was still actively using twitter, this seems pretty poorly done by Musk. Shutting down third party clients? It's arguably a valid decision. They presumably want to consolidate the users into directly controlled clients, where they can be advertised to and can have premium subs…

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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teach wrote: post #14

I 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.

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by w0m »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #154
erk__ wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the big ones Buffer [0] do not believe that they will be impacted this may not be an issue [1] [0]: https://buffer.com [1]: https://twitter.com/buffer/status/1616418191718207488

It would appear that Elon understands his paying customer's after all. Cynical interpretation would be that he just made Twitter API access more scarce and therefore valuable. Still, mine is just a guess. edit: Come to think of it, didn't FB eventually moved from super open API to.. friend and family model?

IIRC, FB was originally public-first before (lawsuits). Not API, just default privacy settings.
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