The funny part is that there are fairly stable internal (as in, 1p client but open to the internet) Twitter APIs that don't require authentication.
Re:Twitter TOS Change
by gavanwilhite on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:35AM
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I think that this has a way higher chance of being true than people have been assuming.
The slack convo leak would have been the same either way.
It really has a strong smell of protect-my-ego.
What are the odds that this whole imbroglio happened because their third-party APIs broke and they can't figure out how to fix them?