John VoorheesJan 15, 2023

Third-party Twitter clients like Tweetbot and and Twitterrific were critical to the success of Twitter and their users are some of the company's most valuable.

Both deserved better than to have the Twitter API shut off on no notice with no explanation. My thoughts and some history over on @macstories: 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

Show threadAlbert Kinng 
@johnvoorhees @macstories I started with digital social interaction back in the 90s with a small desktop app called ICQ. It was like yesterday when Blogging became a popular thing with people, there were so many free blog platforms that young generation start owning their blogs as their own platform. Suddenly the word ‘micro-blog’ was starting to sound everywhere and Twitter was the website to do it, but it was a mess, third party apps fix that. They saved Twitter.
Jan 16, 2023 at 3:08pmWeb