A profile of Tapbots co-founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; former Twitter executive Amir Shevat says third-party apps once accounted for ~17% of engagement
After Elon Musk killed their Twitter app, two software developers in the North Texas suburbs are trying to shape the future of social media.
“It's just a chickenshit maneuver on [Twitter's] part,” said Craig Hockenberry, developer of third-party app Twitterific. “The thing that bothers me the most is just the lack of respect that they showed us and basically everybody else in the developer ecosystem.” …
In my first story for @texasmonthly, I wrote about the founders of @tapbots, whose livelihoods were threatened when Twitter unceremoniously revoked their app @tweetbot. Now, they're betting on their latest creation Ivory, a third-party client for Mastodon. https://www.texasmonthl…
17% of twitter use was on third party apps? Far more than I would have guessed. That explains why they shut it down... https://www.texasmonthly.com/ ...