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Because those third party apps understand what we want from our Twitter timeline. To have it in the right order. To not interrupt it every five tweets with something else. To be compact, fast to use, and ultimately to let us read tweets from our friends. You know, the social bit.
But really it’s not about us, what some might call power users. Or early adopters. Mostly people that use twitter in a way now seemingly niche. See something else @robjohnson wrote: is telling. They see the API as a tool for injecting content IN.
@robjohnson It’s about brand interaction. And those monitoring twitter for sentiment. And people building tools for that. It’s not about the end user having a great experience. It’s about making money. And we don’t make the money directly, we’re just aggregated eyeballs.
You have been told repeatedly by the users who have been here the longest:
Want: Complete chronological timeline of people I follow and the folks who reply.
Don't want: Algorithms that show racist shitheels who I don't follow and who don't interact with people I do.
Want: Complete chronological timeline of people I follow and the folks who reply.
Don't want: Algorithms that show racist shitheels who I don't follow and who don't interact with people I do.
Don't want: Delays seeing tweets from accounts that tweet timely information (@I80chains, @CAquake), and then seeing them re-appear in "Did you miss this?" 48 hours later, when they're stale.
I don't love the promoted tweets/ads, but I recognize you've got a business to run.
I don't love the promoted tweets/ads, but I recognize you've got a business to run.
I've ported one of my bots from the stream API to the AA API. I haven't decided whether to do the others or to just abandon them. Considering the prohibitive pricing above the "sandbox" tier, I'm not inclined.
I shared the following message with our Twitter team this morning 
We just published a blog post about our priorities for Twitter client experiences. I want to share some insight on how we reached these decisions, and how we’re thinking about 3rd party clients moving forward blog.twitter.com/official/en_us…
First, some history. 3rd party clients have had a notable impact on the Twitter service and the products we built. Independent developers built the first Twitter client for Mac and the first native app for iPhone. These clients pioneered product features we all know and love.
