Third-party Twitter apps historically accounted for 17% of all engagement, former exec says

Back in January, Twitter made the decision to kill off third-party clients as part of changes to its API. In light of those changes, Texas Monthly this week published a new in-depth profile on Tapbots, the Texas-based company behind Tweetbot and now Ivory for Mastodon. In the profile, Twitter's former head of product for the developer platform, Amir Shevat, revealed a statistic that further highlights the potential short-sightedness of Twitter's decision to cut off third-party apps like Tweetbot...