Federico Viticci Jan 15, 2023

Let's pour one out for third-party Twitter clients:

Apps that shaped UI conventions, pioneered a market, and in many ways reinvented how we communicate online – unceremoniously killed off by a clown who thinks he's the smartest guy around because he has money.

These apps didn't deserve to end up like this.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs

Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party

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@viticci I see what he's doing. He has disabled all the 3rd party apps in order to identify all of the auto-posting bot accounts.
Jan 15, 2023 at 5:43pmWeb
Show threadPeter ButlerJan 15, 2023
@britishtechguru @viticci but it's not all the 3rd party apps yet, only the most popular. HootSuite still works.
Show threadBritish Tech GuruJan 15, 2023
@peterbutler @viticci ai know I have a few Twitter accounts that I set auto-posting about 10 years ago because I just had no interaction. I left them running. I sometimes wonder if they're still chuntering away. I would check on them if I could remember the site that's broadcasting the messages.