I want to publicly apologize to Twitter for breaking its long-standing API rule of _______.

I feel a bit bad about calling out TwitterDev since they have historically been our biggest advocates within Twitter 1.0.

I did it because I’m sure the messaging didn’t come from the << 5 employees actually left in that group.

@paul also the 5 people at Twitter dev were probably the janitors until last month
@Sonikku @paul sadly even the janitors were fired!
@paul Has there been any official coms from Twitter yet? I've been checking the subreddit and a few other places and have not seen anything.
@EddiKat the TwitterDev account made a post saying the cut off apps for breaking existing rules as they always have done. Which doesn’t square at all with what happened and seems like a terrible attempt at a cover up.
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“Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.”

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Twitter continues to disrespect developers with weak explanation on third-party clients not working

Both users and developers of Twitter’s third-party clients were surprised last week when many popular apps like Tweetbot stopped working out of the blue. Since then, not even Twitter or its new owner Elon Musk (who likes to talk a lot on the social network) have addressed this issue. Today, Twitter continues to disrespect developers, […]

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@paul honestly I wouldn’t feel too bad. The few people left had to know what kind of place “hardcore Twitter” would be.
@tylorsweeney or they need to work there to not loose their visa…
@rotsloeffel that’s also a valid reason
@paul I feel like Melon has been personally drafting all PR statements for the past few months
@paul I think everyone reading that reply would know exactly who it was intended for.
@paul I would not feel bad at all.
@paul lmao did your account get banned
@paul Plan on pulling Tweetbot soon from the store?
@paul seems like “existing” is enough of a violation to them. Yuck
@paul made best 3rd party app of Twitt3r
@paul First rule of Twitter API: DO NOT use Twitter API.
@paul respect users with no ads
@paul chronological
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@paul … using the API as designed.
@paul TYPING WITH BIG LETTERS DUH
@chockenberry @paul typing all uppercase is a capital offense
@paul yep. Reported that tweet as misinfo
@paul You are walking along, paying attention to things as you go. Suddenly, you are stopped by a cop and told that you shouldn't have crossed that line and passed the sign reading "Do Not Enter". You turn around and they are just now installing the sign and painting the line on the ground. Seems pretty sus to me.
@paul hurting king spaceboy’s bottom line.
@paul The new Twitter API rule is that you can't use it now, apparently!
@paul …making a client that’s miles better than Twitter’s own client? 🤷
@paul TBF, your app did make Twitter's app look worse.
@paul I’m so angry on your behalf. It’s such fucking obvious bullshit, and it’s offensive that *this* is how they first acknowledge it happening.
@paul unbelievable, matchless horseshit.

@paul

By inference, I think it’s:

I want to publicly apologize to Twitter for breaking its long-standing API rule of “never add value to the customer experience that Twitter cannot control”.

@paul being mean to Elon by being better than him
@paul Have you considered making a version of Tweetbot that lets us add our own API keys, albeit with not as many features?
@paul Being a 3rd party client with a large user base while their API doesn’t serve ads.
@paul Becoming too successful. I think that's it.
@paul ...developing (and promoting) an app for a competing platform.
@paul just don't do things that might or might not be good or bad for Twitter and/or its users.
@paul I think Tweetbot will go the same way as Netbot (Tapbot app for the platform "App.net", who still knows it?). Hopefully Ivory will be ready soon!
@paul the clown car has fallen off the cliff.
@vp @paul But Elon will continue to declare his awesomeness while it's still in the air.
@paul Ridiculous that you’ve broken a rule, but they don’t want to tell you what rule. Twitter is just a complete mess right now.
@paul https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy It seems recently changed, maybe we can get some clues, if someone has old contract and we can do mergediff on it?
Developer Agreement and Policy – Twitter Developers

Developer Agreement and Policy – Twitter Developers

@paul all I can say is please don’t give up, not just because it your app and you worked hard for it, but also I’m sure there is no buddy loves a product like TB users. For Arabic users, you probably know how Twitt3r is important for us and it’s the most usable app in the entire social media, just search “تويت بوت" and translate every single post to make sure how we miss you. We all just realised that we love twitt3r, because of you, because of Tweetbot 💙
@paul not proactively paying Twitter the required amount of money that Musk may or may not reveal sometime in the future.
@paul actually using the API
@paul It’s shameful that it took five days for Twitter to put out that vague tweet