Glenn FleishmanI just figured out why Elon Musk pulled the plug abruptly on third-party Twitter apps. It’s an experiment. He’s not communicatinganything he’s doing for that reason. He’s looking at metrics to see if killing third-party apps' access to the API results in a reduction in usage and engagement that makes him think he should re-enable it, and then issue a false apology or whatever.
MediaBaron@glennf Suspending the Twitter API was the sledgehammer to swat the flies of debirdify and fedifinder letting users know which of their Twitter follows are on Mastodon so they can follow and migrate. Musk blasted everyone’s API access as he’s running scared of the migration and doesn’t want to help it.
@MediaBaron I could still run Fedifinder last night. This seemed to affect only apps?
@glennf It would not fetch the needed data.
@MediaBaron Strange! I was able to get it to auth just a few hours ago. I don't think those apps are really important enough to Musk to attack when it sweeps in all third-party access with no explanation.