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 threadStephen Battey
@paul the part about it that is irking me the most is that I used Twitter daily for local news. Mastodon does not replicate that for me yet as no local journalists are on mastodon in my area.
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Show threadClaire 🐇💨Jan 15, 2023
@stephen I’m in the same boat, lots of accounts I follow aren’t on Mastodon. My workaround is to use lists in the Twitter app. Lists display tweets in chronological order, and there are no ads. If I can’t use Tweetbot, I might just put all my follows into a main list. It’s the least bad option for staying on Twitter, IMO.
Show threadKevin SpencerJan 15, 2023
@stephen @paul yeah I’m in a bit of a pickle here. For while almost all the tech folk have moved to Mastodon, 75% of the people I follow are still on Twitter including journalists. Breaking news still happens on Twitter unfortunately.
Show threadStephen BatteyJan 15, 2023

@kevinspencer I am attempting to setup a bot for the local papers RSS feed on my instance. If I can achieve that, I can at least sort of replicate my Twitter list for local news.

If that works out, my next step will be pestering local journalists lol.