Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients
it was “enforcing long-standing API rules,” but hadn’t cited which rules developers were violating. The company no longer has a communications team, and most staffers working on its developer platform were also cut during the company’s mass layoffs last year.
But the company's suggestion that the rule was"longstanding" doesn't line up with its history. Twitter clients have long been a part of Twitter. Twitterrific, one of the most prominent apps affected by the API shut-off last week, was created before Twitter had a native iOS app of its own, and iscoining the word “tweet,” as well as other features now commonly associated with Twitter’s app.
In recent years, clients like Tweetbot and Fenix have had devoted followings due to a lack of ads and other features many longtime users dislike. In fact, Twitter explicitly changed its developer policies in 2021 to remove a section that discouraged app makers from"replicating" its core service. The change was part of a
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