>> "I've always felt Twitter has been poorly run, it's almost like the people that work for the company don't actually use it often and are completely disconnected from the userbase. Remember when they completely screwed API users? Various Twitter third parties had to shut down entirely because of it."
They did this to make sure people saw ads. It's why Twitter is profitable now. The vast majority of people on Twitter never knew Twitter had a vibrant developer ecosystem in the distant past.
That's not why Twitter is profitable, and the engineering team and Jack have expressed how badly they screwed up the API situation. Google has managed to offer the Maps API and others at a reasonable cost/to free and had no problems at all. Twitter on the other hand...completely botched it.
They did this to make sure people saw ads. It's why Twitter is profitable now. The vast majority of people on Twitter never knew Twitter had a vibrant developer ecosystem in the distant past.