Twitter wants to bring the spotlight back to third-party apps — and win over developers

After years of a tumultuous relationship with developers, Twitter’s now trying hard to win them over again. In its latest step, the company wants to promote third-party apps on its platform. The firm’s using Twitter Toolbox, a web page it launched in February, to highlight apps to a select number of users. As reported by TechCrunch, the experiment is starting off by suggesting safety-related apps to users, such as tools to filter out vile comments. Amir Shevat, Twitter’s head of Product for its developer platform, told the publication that the company wants to contextualize app suggestions for users based on…

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