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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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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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.

@paul Any chance you could offer conversions of subscriptions of one app into something equivalent for another?

Added clarification, after seeing some of the responses: Like others, I am not interested in it for myself. My curiosity is/was whether it was is something that Tapbots might be able to offer to unhappy customers that get renewed for what is now a non-functional bit of software.

@jochie I'd actually like to do this, feels like a reasonable compromise. The problem is that I don't think I have a way to read the TB sub in Ivory. I thought I had code in place that would copy the App Store receipt to a directory that would be readable by our other apps. But apparently only had that in place for TB5.

It's only a few lines of code to do it, but not like I can get an app that doesn't function through App Store review.

@paul Honestly after the weekend you’ve gone through, I’d be fine with you double dipping on a year of Tweetbot and a year of Ivory. Y’all were done dirty.
@FlatFootFox @paul same here.