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# 17% of Twitter Usage Came from Third Party Apps
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/17-of-twitter-usage-came-from-third-party-apps/
- Published: 2023-05-27T15:33:23.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-27T15:33:23.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Andrew Logan: Two Texas Indie Developers Made It Big on Twitter a Decade Ago. Now They’re Fighting It.](https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-developers-fighting-twitter/?ref=birchtree.me)

> about 17 percent of engagement on Twitter, historically, was through third-party apps

17% is actually much higher than I expected, especially after years of seeing many people dismiss third party apps as effectively just something that like 100 nerds used but don't actually matter.

> “It’s just a chickenshit maneuver on Twitter’s part,” said Craig Hockenberry, developer of third-party app Twitterific. “The thing that bothers me the most is just the lack of respect that they showed us and basically everybody else in the developer ecosystem.”

Well said.