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Jan 22, 2023Liked by Nick Deshpande

Welcome back! Impressive how ChatGPT can make jokes about itself ;)

Great insights as usual. Entropy certainly exists and keeps increasing. Besides the economic challenges, look at Elon shutting down third-party API access for Twitter without any warning. And on the topic of adaptability, it would be interesting to see how companies behind third-party Twitter apps navigate losing their major (or perhaps the only) revenue stream. And to start, I think how they communicate the discontinuation could indicate how adaptable their product folks (and the CEO) are?

- Twitterific https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

- Tweetbot

https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/

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The API changes by Twitter make me think of the classic business model canvas; "key resources" is a segment that needs careful attention and upkeep. If a business is single threaded in terms of reliance on another entity, esp programmatic, for their primary means of delivering value, that's a huge risk that needs to be mitigated or at least well understood. In some cases, the change can't be navigated and the business is no longer tenable.

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