Folks utilizing third-party Twitter purchasers are dealing with plenty of points together with unable to log in and entry Twitter feeds. Tweetbot, Echofon, and Twitterrific, three standard third-party Twitter apps, confirmed the problems and famous that they don’t seem to be certain what has triggered the glitch.
Makers of those apps additionally complained about these points on Mastadon. Twitterrific developer Sean Heber stated ” Did Twitter simply kill third occasion purchasers?” whereas Tweetbot’s Paul Hadad stated “I’m hoping no matter is occurring at Twitter is just a few automated spam safety bot that’s incorrectly suspending correct apps”.
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In an e-mail response to TechCrunch Haddad stated that the problem began round 7.30 PM PT at this time. He additionally talked about that each one API requests from the apps are failing.
It’s possible that Twitter made some modifications to its API for third-party purchasers that resulted in these apps breaking down. It’s not clear if this can be a step to thwart entry to the platform.
Other than the above-mentioned apps, customers complained about being unable to entry Twitter from purchasers like Fenix, Twitpane, Feather, and Talon. So the one technique to entry Twitter is thru the official consumer or the web site.
A put up on Twitter’s developer discussion board stated that on the developer portal, these apps present up as “Suspended”.
Since Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter has killed many developer packages together with Twitter Toolbox for app discovery. Third-party builders have been cautious about their growth plans round Twitter as the corporate hasn’t communicated its plans for the ecosystem. Final month, the corporate’s former head of developer platforms, Amir Shevat, wrote for TechCrunch that the brand new administration broke the belief of builders.
Whereas Twitter hasn’t communicated something in regards to the difficulty, the TwitterDev account stated final month that the corporate “will proceed to spend money on our Developer Platform, particularly our Twitter API.”
Earlier this week, Twitter determined to make the algorithmic timeline — named “For You” — the default feed on iOS.
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