[blacklight]

> the only affected apps were those which provided a different means to access Twitter without ads

Isn't that the whole purpose of an API to send and retrieve content without ads - or any other presentation-layer addition?

[Hamuko]

It's definitely the purpose of the Twitter API because it does not serve ads when you fetch the timeline.

[TillE]

While that's clearly the right choice for professional social media manager type apps which might pay some monthly fee, it's very strange that in so many years they've never created two tiers of API feeds, with an ad-filled one for normal third party apps.