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I bet there are people who make Twitter applications for a living. How is he damaging.



I paid for Tweetbot on iOS for a few years. Canceled that sub when I closed my Twitter account a month or two ago. Sorry Tweetbot devs.


Oh sure, I feel incredibly sorry for small business and indi-developers who may loose their income from this. I hope they have contingency plans for this eventuality and have started to diversify.

There is also a whole ecosystem of "publisher" apps like Buffer and Typefully that haven't been blocked yet, if I was them I would be very worried right now.


Twitter should've announced this, giving developers time to switch.


You can't announce anything if you've fired the comms team.


> You can't announce anything if you've fired the comms team.

Elon fired the Tesla PR team and yet announcements still are made, usually as Tweets from him. It sucks, but a comms team isn’t necessary assuming you are ok with substandard communication.


and yet announcements still are made

Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter. He tweets as an individual. Twitter, the company, is a blackhole as far as comms goes. There is no news in any official capacity from the company any more.



So what is Twitter's response to the issue? Surely one of those accounts has addressed it... I can't seem to find it.


Moving the goalpost.


The @TwitterSupport account occasionally posts news announcements


> Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter.

I’m not saying it’s sane, but in his eyes, yes they are, just like his tweets about Tesla.




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