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Exactly. What's their goal with the new API? Will they continue to be hostile to Twitter app developers?

Years ago, they made a distinct choice to become a business/celebrity platform, and actively moved away from the utility it could have been. That move cemented my view of Twitter as a dead-end for technology.

Twitter is not as profitable as they want to be, so the corporate wants user to do something monetizable, but users prefer what can’t generate revenue and don’t favor whatever that do, but Twitter is a private company so they have to do it eve if it would only result in its irrelevance, and that will lead to even less profit, then

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