Let’s pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:Īpps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online These apps didn’t deserve to end up like this.Įven after Twitter had its own suite of apps, the third-party app market flourished. Nope it’s not shutdown, they’ve specifically just revoked the API keys for the most popular apps. The Twitter client briefly became available in the midst of an outage that locked users out of major third-party Twitter clients.Īnd now dead again, along with some old unused API keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted. I’m looking forward to putting it all behind us once and for all at this point. John’s right, this whole affair is utterly disgraceful from top to bottom. I absolutely cannot wait to see the twisted justifications Musk and Twitter spit out for suspending SOME but not all 3rd party clients. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. Endpoints were removed, new features were unavailable to third parties, and rate limiting restricted what we could do. Like my mom, the API has been declining for awhile. Our work was definitive and groundbreaking. We often hear that folks joined up because of our app. I’m not usually one to toot my own horn, but we literally crafted the early experience on the service.
Twitterrific is something that we’ve all poured our love into for the past 16 years. If we’re permanently cut off I need to know so we can remove the app from sale and prevent those.
renewals for year 3 of Tweetbot coming up in a couple of weeks. The only conclusion at this point is that it was intentional and not any kind of bug.įor the record, still no official or even unofficial communication from anyone within Twitter.Īnd I really want an official public statement. Just a clown show.Įven without these leaks if you add up the lack of communication, only impacting the top 25-50 Twitter API clients and clients showing up as suspended in the dev. Zero respect for the users for those apps, zero respect for the developers behind them - many of whom had been building on the Twitter platform for 10-15 years. But pulling the plug on these clients and ghosting everyone on communications about it is so absurdly disrespectful. Twitter can of course do what it wants, and Musk owns Twitter so he can do what he wants. The Information notes that “most of Twitter’s employees, including most people working on Twitter’s developer platforms” have been laid off. Since then, Twitter, including the usually vocal Elon Musk, has not announced the removal of third-party apps. Other internal (Slack) communications seen by the publication reveal that Twitter is working on “approved talking points” for partners, but it’s not clear when they would be ready. The reason for the suspension couldn’t be learned. The suspension cut off the ability of people to use Twitter on outside apps, forcing them to go to Twitter’s own app. The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension, according to internal messages viewed by The Information. Here’s a spreadsheet I saw shared around that confirms this targeted a specific set of popular clients Twitter Claims Apps Blocked for Violating API Rules
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