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Isn't that the same thing Reddit did to kill third-party apps?
Except Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft were already paying Twitter crazy money for the API to begin with. Musk could have kept his mouth shut and kept that money but being a greedy asshole apparently matters when your trying to extort more money out of other greedy assholes
He's such a child that he killed one of the few reliably profitable parts of Tesla because other companies would get to play with it.
People need to understand - billionaires are not monolithic. They are each awful in their own particular way. Elmo's a toddler. Bezos is a sadistic micromanager. Larry Ellison is a robot. Gates is a morally complex human being who's just kind of a dick.