Reports suggest that Twitter has intentionally banned many third-party apps – and that could the final insult for many fans.
Many third-party Twitter apps including Tweetbot have been down for several days –and a new report suggests that the social media network has intentionally suspended the clients. If true, that could be the final insult that sees significant number of hardcore Twitter users leave for fresh pastures.
According some internal Slack messages picked up by The Information (opens in new tab), the continuing outage of clients like Tweetbot and Twitterific “was an intentional suspension”. While those messages didn’t clarify why Twitter was pulling the plug on the services, a strong possibility is because they don’t help drive ad revenue to the network.
Some third-party clients have ad-free versions, which isn’t exactly helpful in a time when Twitter is trying to offset declining ad revenues. But Twitter’s ongoing silence about the issue has poured fuel on the growing outrage about the situation – and that will only grow if it is indeed culling third-party apps on a permanent basis.
The complete absence of communication from Twitter has resulted in some pretty despondent statements from third-party apps.
