Marco Arment: (regarding the new updated Twitter 4.0 iOS app piece by John Gruber)
I’d wager that all third-party clients will be forced to display the trends and ads within a year, and what we know as Twitter today — or at least what we knew until yesterday morning — will be a distant, quaint memory: Remember when it was just people you followed?
I really hope this doesn’t happen. I use and value Twitter way more than Facebook, the other social audience platform I currently use. I understand the need to monetize Twitter, but there has got to be a better way than forcing users to see tweets or threads for things they have no interest in. Thankfully, right now in the present, I can use Tweetbot and avoid all this nonsense.