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FediTips has moved!Jan 14, 2023

Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing their network, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

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Gidi Kroon

@feditips It doesn't seem generally true for third party apps, at least not yet, that Twitter cut them off. My interface with Twitter still worked a few minutes ago.

But the general point that it can happen is true of course. A little while ago Instagram restricted their api, essentially blocking all outside development. On the fediverse, no organisation controls all servers, so it indeed can not happen like that.