Also, even if they weren't making money from such users, if this is a common experience, the opportunity to make money from them with advanced warning to switch to the official client existed but has now been lost.

> If you drive away enough users

We don't have any hard numbers but I'm curious why you think network effects would apply here.

Twitter's audience is not the same as it was 10 years ago, when the tech/tech-adjacent Twitter audience made a huge fuss over API access, and they were probably generating close to a majority of the content at that time.

I think it's likely this group is too small to matter now.