Paul Haddad Jan 15, 2023
Keyword “Intentional”.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show
Musk’s Twitter Intentionally Suspended Tweetbot, Third-Party Apps, Messages Show

The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension, according to internal messages viewed by The Information. The suspension cut off the ability of people to use Twitter on outside apps, forcing them to go to Twitter’s ...

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Show threadPaul Haddad Jan 15, 2023

DF has a good summation of this latest revelation.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twitter-slack-confirmation

Even without these leaks if you add up the lack of communication, only impacting the top 25-50 Twitter API clients and clients showing up as suspended in the dev. dashboard. The only conclusion at this point is that it was intentional and not any kind of bug.

For the record, still no official or even unofficial communication from anyone within Twitter.

If You Needed Any More Confirmation, Internal Slack Messages at Twitter Show That Cutting Off Third-Party Clients Was ‘Intentional’

Link to: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-intentionally-suspended-tweet-bot-third-party-apps-messages-show?rc=jfy0lk

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Show threadAndy

@paul that's so horrible.

but kinda also expected.

with 1.1 and the clients back then being killed one-by-one with the 100k token limit this was bad enough, now we just have no-frills suspension.

but I know enough people that use Twitter only with those apps, and that might get many to switch over/stop using Twitter entirely.

Jan 15, 2023 at 12:49amWeb
Show threadAndyJan 15, 2023

@paul I guess the last straw many people hang onto is TweetDeck, or rather legacy TweetDeck.

but with moves like that, I assume that Musk will aim to just do a hard launch of the new TweetDeck, which includes all the Web Twitter features (like algo-backed timelines), and maybe even put promoted posts in there.

Show thread0ddfactoryJan 15, 2023
@pixel @paul I sure hope so, if I had known the fediverse existed I might have swapped back when they crippled the API to barely function and not send notifications to begin with.