Folks utilizing third-party Twitter shoppers are going through quite a lot of points, together with being 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 aren’t 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 shoppers?” whereas Tweetbot’s Paul Haddad 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 electronic mail response to , Haddad stated the difficulty began round 7:30 PM PT right now. He additionally talked about that every one API requests from the apps are failing.
It’s doubtless that Twitter made some adjustments to its API for third-party shoppers that resulted in these apps breaking down. It’s not clear if it is a step to thwart entry to the platform.
Other than the above-mentioned apps, customers complained about being unable to entry Twitter from shoppers like Fenix, Twitpane, Feather and Talon. So the one option to entry Twitter is thru the official shopper or the web site.
A post 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 improvement 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 that the brand new administration broke the trust of developers.
Whereas Twitter hasn’t communicated something in regards to the difficulty, the TwitterDev account said 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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