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All of this is to say, it’s fucking insane that Twitter has killed their native Mac client not once, but twice. I don’t care if it only had a hundred thousand users, a thousand users, or a hundred users, it’s the abandonment of those users that’s insane for the reasons listed above. Yes, every company needs focus and even the biggest companies need to allocate resources in appropriate ways. Again, what I’d argue is that this is an appropriate way. Maybe the most appropriate way, in many ways, data be damned.

And so if the above is fucking insane, making the above decision and then making the decision to severely neuter the third-party apps that were filling in the holes you dug is absolutely mega ultra batshit fucking insane. The fact that so many third-parties were filling these holes should say enough"Š—“Šthey’re not just doing this for fun, they’re doing it because there are holes to be filled. What Twitter is saying, explicably"Š—“Šyet inexplicably from the 10,000 foot view"Š—“Šis that they like holes. They really, really just enjoy having holes in their product. And if you’re a user who doesn’t like to use products with holes? Well, you can use"Š—“Šnope, actually, you can’t. And also, if you happen to be amongst our most loyal and passionate users, fuck you.

And I’m with him.