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 ...

The Information
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

Daring Fireball
Show threadPaul 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.
Show threadThom McGrathJan 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.
Show threadPaul Haddad Jan 15, 2023

@tekcor Technically? Absolutely nothing, I have API keys that aren't suspended and have the ability to remotely update them in probably 5-10 minutes.

Practically? I'm not going to play silly games and I don't want to worry about getting sued by someone with an unlimited legal budget.

Show threadmonorail times
@paul @tekcor some of y’all wanna go back to Twitter too badly, let it go, it’s done
Jan 15, 2023 at 3:25amWeb
Show threadThom McGrathJan 15, 2023
@monorailtimes The trouble is audience. The overwhelming majority of the accounts I want to follow are not using Mastodon. It feels like we’re all software developers over here.
Show threadBrendan@TapForms 🇨🇦Jan 15, 2023
@tekcor that's actually what I love about Mastodon right now.
Show threadJamieJan 15, 2023
@tekcor same. No one I follow over there is over here and I don’t think Twitter will “die,” it’s not going to be the same, but it won’t die completely.
Show threadfhooJan 15, 2023
@tekcor @monorailtimes @paul With the right client Twitter was/is still a nice source of information, if you follow the right accounts  and unfortunately I‘m still missing some of them here in the fediverse 
Show threadEverybody loves GordoJan 15, 2023
@monorailtimes @paul @tekcor I think you're missing the point here.