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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Twitter API for Third Party Clients

Twitter is working on a mastodon client. The rules of the Twitter API for third party clients is that you're not allowed to integrate with others competing services. A tweet bot or Twitterific can't build in mastodon support in the same app because that's a vibe. So they have to make a separate app as opposed to the actual fetaverse of mastodon and anything else that uses these open protocols, right? Which, you know, mastodon is truly in the spirit of the open web.

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