<story><title>Twitter API Page</title><url>https://developer.twitter.com/apitools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardenhedge</author><text>Twitter was making no money off you so I doubt Elon Musk will care.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know whether killing Tweetbot was intentional or deliberate. However I was a pretty heavy user of Twitter - scrolling through my timeline on the tram, in cafes, on the toilet or whenever I had a spare moment. I assumed that the API outage was temporary so I didn&amp;#x27;t download the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; app, and figured I&amp;#x27;d just wait a day or so for Tweetbot to be fixed. It&amp;#x27;s now been ~3 days, I don&amp;#x27;t miss not having Twitter, I don&amp;#x27;t check it at all. I&amp;#x27;m maybe missing a couple of @dril posts, podcast recommendations or funny images I could&amp;#x27;ve shared with friends but that&amp;#x27;s nothing.&lt;p&gt;So intentional or not, I&amp;#x27;m effectively lost as a Twitter user. I&amp;#x27;m not claiming to be particularly high value, but I don&amp;#x27;t imagine my experience is unique. I&amp;#x27;m quite far from a fan of Musk but I enjoyed my Twitter experience enough that his meddling was just an amusing side-show until now. It&amp;#x27;s not a dramatic rage quit, just a sort of accidental &amp;quot;oh I guess I didn&amp;#x27;t need that&amp;quot; realisation that I didn&amp;#x27;t plan on having at all. Weird.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly if Twitter had said &amp;quot;We are killing off Tweetbot, you have to use our app&amp;quot; I &lt;i&gt;probably&lt;/i&gt; would have just begrudgingly downloaded the Twitter app. But because they didn&amp;#x27;t say anything, I just waited and went through the &amp;quot;cold turkey&amp;quot; period, where every now and then I&amp;#x27;d instinctively tap the Tweetbot icon before thinking &amp;quot;ah yeah it&amp;#x27;s down, oh well&amp;quot; - before completely losing that habit. What an own goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>superfrank</author><text>That thinking only works for so long. If you drive away enough users, eventually your network effect starts to weaken making it easier for even more users to leave.&lt;p&gt;I also think it&amp;#x27;s an odd decision now that they&amp;#x27;re exposing view count to users. Driving away users on third party clients will cause that number to drop.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter API Page</title><url>https://developer.twitter.com/apitools</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gardenhedge</author><text>Twitter was making no money off you so I doubt Elon Musk will care.</text></item><item><author>smcl</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know whether killing Tweetbot was intentional or deliberate. However I was a pretty heavy user of Twitter - scrolling through my timeline on the tram, in cafes, on the toilet or whenever I had a spare moment. I assumed that the API outage was temporary so I didn&amp;#x27;t download the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; app, and figured I&amp;#x27;d just wait a day or so for Tweetbot to be fixed. It&amp;#x27;s now been ~3 days, I don&amp;#x27;t miss not having Twitter, I don&amp;#x27;t check it at all. I&amp;#x27;m maybe missing a couple of @dril posts, podcast recommendations or funny images I could&amp;#x27;ve shared with friends but that&amp;#x27;s nothing.&lt;p&gt;So intentional or not, I&amp;#x27;m effectively lost as a Twitter user. I&amp;#x27;m not claiming to be particularly high value, but I don&amp;#x27;t imagine my experience is unique. I&amp;#x27;m quite far from a fan of Musk but I enjoyed my Twitter experience enough that his meddling was just an amusing side-show until now. It&amp;#x27;s not a dramatic rage quit, just a sort of accidental &amp;quot;oh I guess I didn&amp;#x27;t need that&amp;quot; realisation that I didn&amp;#x27;t plan on having at all. Weird.&lt;p&gt;Interestingly if Twitter had said &amp;quot;We are killing off Tweetbot, you have to use our app&amp;quot; I &lt;i&gt;probably&lt;/i&gt; would have just begrudgingly downloaded the Twitter app. But because they didn&amp;#x27;t say anything, I just waited and went through the &amp;quot;cold turkey&amp;quot; period, where every now and then I&amp;#x27;d instinctively tap the Tweetbot icon before thinking &amp;quot;ah yeah it&amp;#x27;s down, oh well&amp;quot; - before completely losing that habit. What an own goal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smcl</author><text>I thought about this, so I wasn&amp;#x27;t seeing the sponsored tweets ... but I don&amp;#x27;t see why they couldn&amp;#x27;t have just modified the feed they provided to Tweetbot, Twitterific et al to include these ads.&lt;p&gt;I agree that Elon doesn&amp;#x27;t care, but he probably &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; care that heavy users like me can be so quickly and easily lost. And in addition to being more bad PR, 3rd party developers will interpret this as a clear signal not to invest much in integrating with Twitter.</text></comment>