For Twitter third party clients are basically competition so it's not surprising that they make API access as limited as possible. Furthermore because of network effects they are not afraid that a significant number of people will leave the platform.
Re:Premium Account Activity API
by ymolodtsov on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:28PM
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Well, they could try to compete and make decent apps first.
Re:Premium Account Activity API
by solarkraft on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:23PM
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For some reason they're treating them like competition.
Hopefully they'll actually become competition and push users (the engaged ones who fed twitter to its current state and are dissatisfied now) to use Mastodon.
It's sad to see how Twitter is treating 3rd party devs, and "engaged" users — the kind of users willing to buy a 3rd party app to use their services. Furthermore, these engaged users bring their value to the platform by bringing in eyeballs from less engaged audiences rather than clicking on ads themselves.