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Facebook and Instagram never killed their robust third-party client ecosystem the way Twitter and Reddit recently did, because they never had one. They understood their business model from the get-go.

I remember when Facebook trumpeted their open APIs. The Internet forgets so quickly.



Indeed. Because of the massive turnover in this industry, it's got a very short memory. Few of us here today were working on this thing a quarter century ago.




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