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Reacts: Why Elon Musk Killed Twitter’s Developer API – According To The Exec Who Ran It

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The Twitter Developer Platform

The Twitter API was the method by which third parties built really great clients for mobile, for desktop. Many of the features that we've grown to take for granted on Twitter were invented by third party developers and later adopted by the core business. In fact, I think some of the mobile apps were third party apps that were purchased in,. And that is true. We know how powerful developer platforms are, but also that they're quite difficult to get right.

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