[potatolicious]

> "It's more about the collective voice and reiterating that you can't treat your developer community like crap."

But they can. The rode the 3rd party ecosystem all the way to the top, and now you're no longer needed. They can do whatever they want, which really sucks, and is kind of a dick thing to do, but even collectively you (plural, as in the whole of Twitter's dev base) have no sway over Twitter now.

I'm not condoning Twitter's actions, but IMO petitioning them when it's clear that this is the result of a major strategy shift, is just wasting your breath. It will aggravate you and be ultimately useless.