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Twitter limited Instagram’s integration ‘in direct retaliation’ to Facebook.
After the acquisition, Systrom says he informed his board that Twitter had decided to restrict access to part of its API, which allowed people to find their Twitter friends on Instagram. A Twitter executive “made it clear that this is in direct retaliation to Facebook cutting off the same API access to Twitter. I can only imagine Jack + Dick are also not very happy about the acquisition.”
Their feud also blocked Instagram link previews in tweets until it was resolved over backyard pizza in 2021.
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