Folks utilizing third-party Twitter shoppers are going through a variety of points together with unable to log in and entry Twitter feeds. Tweetbot, Echofon, and Twitterrific, three well-liked 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 mentioned ” Did Twitter simply kill third occasion shoppers?” whereas Tweetbot’s Paul Hadad mentioned “I’m hoping no matter is happening 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 mentioned that the difficulty began round 7.30 PM PT right this moment. He additionally talked about that every one API requests from the apps are failing.
It’s possible that Twitter made some modifications 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 mentioned 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 TechCrunch that the brand new administration broke the trust of developers.
Whereas Twitter hasn’t communicated something concerning the problem, the TwitterDev account said final month that the corporate “will proceed to put money into 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.
