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		blueblimp on Jan 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023 > Hell, just announce "you must have a Twitter Blue subscription to use a third party client" and that might have actually gone well for them. I've been wondering too why they didn't do this. That would at least get them some quick revenue. Could it be that they didn't want to keep supporting the API?

zimpenfish on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

The API is still up though - all my things that use the API are currently working fine[1].

[1] But none of them "replicate the Twitter experience", just bots and archivers.

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