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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by pessimizer on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:56PM (#34419937)
Not willingly:

Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else [2011]

https://mashable.com/archive/twitter-api-clients

Twitter's API Update Cuts Off Oxygen to Third-Party Clients [2012]

https://mashable.com/archive/twitter-api-big-changes

(how could Elon do this!?)

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by sleepybrett on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:15PM (#34420207)
But amazingly third party clients still thrived even after those API nerfs for over 10 years.

I mean it's within his right to do it, and I can even see the arguments. However, to do it without even a press release let alone notice. Without even answering support tickets from those third party clients. Just an utter failure of management.

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