Comment on Twitter will start serving you promoted tweets from accounts you don’t followparentComments−joezydeco15ySo what stops me from writing a client that whitelists only the users I want to see? Unless Twitter completely changes their API, or camouflages ads as tweets from my follow list, how can they lock you into seeing ads?−protomyth15yNot giving you access to the APIs for a new, "misbehaving" client is one way.
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So what stops me from writing a client that whitelists only the users I want to see? Unless Twitter completely changes their API, or camouflages ads as tweets from my follow list, how can they lock you into seeing ads?
Not giving you access to the APIs for a new, "misbehaving" client is one way.