Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients https://9to5google.com/2023/01/12/twitter-api-appears-to-be-down-breaking-tweetbot-and-third-party-clients/
Twitter API appears to be down, breaking Tweetbot and third-party clients

Twitter clients are broken left and right as the API unexpectedly went down on January 11, even bringing down Tweetbot.

9to5Google
@9to5Mac I have no idea what this means #old
@MikeyMcFilms @9to5Mac It either means that Twitter is starting to kill off third-party apps or no one's at the wheel at Twitter to address token issues. We'll see soon.
@spsheridan @9to5Mac
No one is at the wheel
Half my notifications show up in “mentions” but not in “all”
@MikeyMcFilms @9to5Mac Try using twitter.com - works fine for me, just not third-party apps like Tweetbot or Twitterific. How about you?
@spsheridan @9to5Mac Twitter is fine except for missing notifications in “all”
@MikeyMcFilms @9to5Mac Nothing to do with being old. APIs are the rules of how everything that isn't Twitter can use Twitter. So if the API is failing, no 3rd party clients.
@MikeyMcFilms @9to5Mac Twitter is not allowing anyone with anything other than the corporation's own app to access the website. They want full control of what those trapped on the website (via smartphone, anyway - web access appears to be unaffected) see, do, and post.
@9to5Mac Meanwhile, Mastodon is working just fine.#federated
@9to5Mac Twitter aka very unfriendly to 3rd party apps, and now they just stop them from working which isn't unexpected ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
@9to5Mac
Fenix 2 on Android looks broken too. Won't refresh from 8 hours ago. Not that I'm missing it 😂
@YusufToropov
@andyhagon @9to5Mac like watching an alcoholic destroy a family one has left
@andyhagon @9to5Mac grim melancholy
@andyhagon @9to5Mac and one tries to stay in touch with those one can
@YusufToropov
It's kind of sad when you think back to the happy times. But yeah, this guy is trashing the place ☹️
@9to5Mac
@9to5Mac How odd that the avian droppings container corporation spared TweetDeck. I know it's been recommended by trusted sources (like BellingCat) for years, but might be worth digging in to why that's the only 3rd-party app been spared the wrath of the red muppet Manchurian Qovidiot fifth columnist for Putin and Xi plague rat.