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 Spot on Federico. If it wasn’t for the likes of Tweetbot, Twitterrific, I wouldn’t have used twitter anywhere like I did.
It’s a real shame as twitter was by far my main social media outlet and just really enjoyed it. Sadly, that has been taken away and if I’m honest, even before Musk took over, it was getting tiresome in terms of the toxicity around. Musk just took it to another level.
Jan 15, 2023 at 7:18pmWeb