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by protomyth 4390 days ago
> With something like Twitter, I get it. In order to make money off their customers' use of Twitter's free service, they need to be in control of the customers' experience (so they can do things like show ads)

Twitter didn't need to close the API to make sure ads were shown they just needed to make sure API developers knew there were certain messages they weren't allowed to block. The whole control the experience is a poor excuse for killing an ecosystem that got the company to where it was.