points by rvz 3 years ago

Absolutely. The creators of third-party clients have not learned anything about the risks of building on top of someone else's business and APIs and exactly when that service is a completely free API.

As predicted here: [0] when a third-party Discord client had to shut down [1] because Discord Inc. controlled the platform, the same has happened to Twitter.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685294

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684953