Well at this point no-one is really surprised.<p>I think what is surprising is Musks blatant disregard for Twitter as a platform. I’m not the expert of this but my understanding is that a platform strategy brings a range of other companies and offerings that extend your ecosystem and offer value to your users beyond what you need to build out yourself.<p>Twitter was an anomoly in my mind but now Reddit seems desperate to follow Musks magical playbook.<p>How much is a platform play worth in 2023? Was it all just hype or are Reddit and Musk reading it wrong?
Reading through that thread is just sad. So many people desperately clinging to the graces of Twitter/Elon – even paying money for the privilege – just to get the rug pulled from under them day after day with no recourse.<p>It's like watching a couple in a toxic relationship who refuse to split up. It's hard to sympathize with either side.
It seems like they’re trying to prevent people from building “friend finding” tools using Twitter?<p>Twitter’s data export feature already barely gives you a copy of your graph ha.<p>Seems like they want to own that at all costs
The change-log of when they removed features: <a href="https://developer.twitter.com/en/updates/changelog" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.twitter.com/en/updates/changelog</a>