After years of a tumultuous relationship with developers, Twitters now trying hard to win them over again.
In its latest step, the company wants to promote third-party apps on its platform.
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In 2020,it relaunched its APIto third-party app building.
And last year, it made it available to a wider set of developerswith an easy sign-up process.
This app highlight feature is an extension of Twitters increasing efforts to support developers.
A former Twitter employee, Evan Henshaw-Plath, posteda threadabout how another hostile bid affected developers back in 2015.
Bill Gross of IdeaLabs allegedly tried to take over Twitter by aggressively buying third-party clients.
As a defense mechanism, the company restricted API access to 100k registered users.
If you wanted more, you could apply for special permission, but that was rarely approved.
So both users and developers that provided unique features with their apps were left disappointed and confused.
Maybe I can create a section within the product that surfaces developer innovation.
As a platform, Twitter still has a ton of problems ranging from hate speech moderation tocrypto spam bots.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.”
