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nradov on Feb 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimate...

Is it viable for advertising supported services to have a fully functional API? Some third-party developer will build an alternative client app with no ads and eliminate the revenue stream.

vkou on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

And they'll get their API keys revoked.

Just because you have an API doesn't mean you're going to allow anyone and everyone to use it how they want.

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