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@mcc Twitter was also a “proprietary service operated by a single company, but with an unusually good ‘API’ for plug-in 3rdparty tools” until they dramatically locked it down in May 2012 and banned third-party clients.

I remember that moment well. It led to a wave of migration to a federated, open-source alternative: Tent.

For a moment I really thought Tent was gonna change the world. Fun time capsule now: https://scott.mn/2012/10/20/tent/