Twitter's sudden ban on third-party apps is baffling as it is stupid

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Twitter's sudden ban on third-party apps is baffling as it is stupid
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Twitter's sudden ban on third-party apps gives no reason why, and it's a slap in the face of the loyalty that developers showed for the platform.

If you found that apps such as Twitteriffic and Tweetbot had stopped working, it wasn't by accident. In one swoop, third-party apps for Twitter went offline earlier this month, rendering the efforts of many developers over the years pointless, and their loyalty to the company, shattered.since late 2022, where a bunch of decisions have either been heavily criticized or reversed, apparently depending on how he was feeling that day.

For transparency, you'd usually expect to see a web link to a support page, outlining the rules and why it came to this conclusion - but there's nothing.

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