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		markisus on Jan 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009) I remember in the beginning twitter was supportive of third party developers using it for all sorts of different things using its free API. I guess they decided they didn’t just want to be the protocol and closed off access.

alt227 on Jan 20, 2025 [–]

IMO that was the day that twitter died, when they pulled the access to the public API which was originally the USP of the service.

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