Amir, Is Twitter a Developer Platform?

Amir Etzioni: When I came to Twitter as a partner, just like yourself as a developer from the outside, I was asked by the Twitter team to meet Jack Dorsey and the rest of the leadership and give them a piece of my mind. "I told them it sucks. I told them that their partnership strategy is broken" He says they moved from an open platform to a closed platform with lots of hurdles. At Slack, he said, hey, everything would be open up as an API. The API will never be monetizable. That is a core part of the three pillars of Slack. And for the first year after the acquisition, we were on track until Elon

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