I mean you're a platform company in 2023 and you don't want an API? Idk that sounds like competence to me in failing to appreciate its value. Sure, I appreciate it follows a strategy but I worry that the strategy will not help twitter in the long term.

Twitter was a platform company in 2011, but after they started limiting the api in 2012[1], I'm not sure that they wanted to be a platform anymore.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2012/changes-comi...

I think you need to rate limit and auth most free consumer-facing end points, given the maliciousness of public traffic. Limiting it is just protecting yourself from its worst excesses, that doesn't necessarily mean you don't want to be a platform.

In what sense is Twitter a platform?

it hosts a communication service for organisations and individuals to build followings and broadcast messages. I guess its about whether you see Twitter as more than its user interface or not.

They certainly don't seem to be valuing it enough to assign the quality/quantity of engineering necessary to maintain it.

So what you're saying is we have an inverse Hanlon's Razor, here?

Commercial awareness is also competence