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Title: Third-party Twitter apps historically accounted for 17% of all engagement, former exec says
Post by: HCK on June 01, 2023, 04:05:04 pm
Third-party Twitter apps historically accounted for 17% of all engagement, former exec says

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<p>Back in January, Twitter made the decision (https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/14/twitter-third-party-app-intentional-block/) to kill off third-party clients as part of changes to its API. In light of those changes, Texas Monthly (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-developers-fighting-twitter/) this week published a new in-depth profile on Tapbots, the Texas-based company behind Tweetbot and now Ivory for Mastodon.</p>
<p>In the profile, Twitter’s former head of product for the developer platform, Amir Shevat, revealed a statistic that further highlights the potential short-sightedness of Twitter’s decision to cut off third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific…</p>
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