New developer requirements to protect our platform
As someone who is apparently &quot;old&quot;, I continue to not understand how Twitter has managed to trick an entire generation of developers into believing they need Twitter&#x27;s permission to develop a third-party Twitter client. Has the law changed in some noticeable way to make reverse engineering the official Twitter client and extracting their first party keys for purposes of interoperability suddenly illegal? We used to do this <i>all the time, at scale</i> before Twitter&#x27;s invention of the &quot;API key&quot;, and the only recourse the service has is to try to detect weird usages of their backend and then punish the users... something that tends to be something of a PR nightmare. (FWIW, I am totally willing to believe the issue is that Apple won&#x27;t accept them, but then that is Apple being the asshole, and we should be looking into ways of making that market collusion illegal, assuming of course that it isn&#x27;t already.)