Twitter Ads App Throws Its Neck On Chopping Block

What would you do if you were a third party developer who was thriving financially while in flagrant violation of Twitter’s API rules?

If you were the founder of Followgen, you’d out yourself and see how it all shook out . . . after making a bundle of dough, of course.

Miles Recny admits that his app, Followgen, directly cannibalizes Twitter’s Ads revenue model and does so on Twitter’s very own platform. Why is he admitting this? It seems he’s trying to prevent his app’s inevitable demise – or, at the very least, he’s attempting to will it to happen with some measure of predictability (one of those).

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