Someone just asked for #Cawbird to be translated into Latin.

It has been dead for a year after Musk killed the Twitter API, and then the Twitter-and-Mastodon rewrite got canned. But someone only just asked for a translation.

I don't understand some people!

Finally, #Cawbird (nixpkgs edition) is dead as well. Until recently, it was still successfully interacting with the Twitter API, while already being abandoned by its upstream devs @ibboard.

Now I get error messages like
cawbird-WARNING **: 00:02:27.739: ../src/CbUtils.c(call_done_cb): 0x4710760, 1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json Forbidden

Either the whole old API is gone for good, or the nixpks API key has been discovered and revoked.

Development of #Cawbird #NewCaw is suspended indefinitely.

@CodedOre was leading the rewrite, but is too busy with university commitments - https://mastodon.online/@CodedOre/110395875840491711
@ibboard was considering stepping down but hadn't announced anything.

Musk has killed Twitter as a platform, so NewCaw's original focus on multi-platform support is dead. There are other Mastodon clients available. The dev team don't have the time/interest to build another.

Now here's a #curious #fact

Some third party #Linux #apps still #work with #Twitter. #Cawbird still works for example. What on earth is going on therer?

I only just noticed as I was tidying up old twitter accounts. I might leave that one for now just out of #curiosity.