Mastodawn

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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Paul 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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Paul Haddad

Jan 15, 2023

And I really want an official public statement. We have a large number of sub. renewals for year 3 of Tweetbot coming up in a couple of weeks. If we're permanently cut off I need to know so we can remove the app from sale and prevent those. Which obviously I'd rather not do.

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Thom McGrath Jan 15, 2023

@paul Also, what is stopping you from getting a new API key? I’m sure they’d shut that one down too, but seeing as they are cherry-picking keys to suspend, they’d have to realize it first.

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Mike

@tekcor @paul I would guess that they put automations in place that suspend apps over a certain amount of calls per month. A new API Key would almost immediately be revoked.