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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by ceejayoz on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:24PM (#33377396)
> And it might be deterrent against people trying to build popular alternative client that might compete with main twitter app.

That's horrible for users.

Twitter's iOS app is a third-party app they bought because it was so much better than their own at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetie

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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by cmckn on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:40PM (#33378865)
That was its origin, yes; but that was 12 years ago. The current official client is unrecognizable from Tweetie.
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Re:Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far by scotty79 on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:12AM (#33382649)
Yeah, but that was then and this is now. Thinghs kinda settled down since then.

The real danger of opening the API and marking all tweets made through API as BOT is that this label looses impact if some alternative client that uses API raises to prominence.

I'd say that current setup where users have no indication that something might have been posted by bot is way more horrible.

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