After the famous businessman Elon Musk bought Twitter, many users left the platform. As a result, it moved to platforms such as Reddit or Mastodon. Now, Twitter is faced with a new situation. Finally, the company confirmed that it intentionally blocked third-party apps from accessing its platform. Here are the details!
Twitter intentionally blocked third-party apps from accessing
After Elon Musk bought Twitter, things are not going well on the platform. Especially after the recent events, Twitter users started to leave the application. The platform’s third-party apps, Tweetbot and Twitterrific, have been down since last week. The reason for this was not clear until now.
Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) January 17, 2023
With a share from the Twitter Developer account, the reason for this became clear. He tweeted, “Twitter is enforcing long-standing API rules. This may cause some apps not to work.” contains descriptions. This was Twitter’s first statement about the problem since the apps started to break down.
However, a senior Twitter engineer allegedly reported to employees that the third-party cuts were “intentional” and did not tell why. In addition, the company’s statement does not specify which API rules the applications violate. According to at least one of the developers, they are also not told what rules they are breaking.
Tweetbot co-creator Paul Haddad made a joke about it. In her statement, she said, “I want to publicly apologize to Twitter for breaking the long-standing ________ API rule.” said. Also, the Tweetbot app was back online for a short time over the weekend. But that was also because Paul Haddad changed the API keys. This situation made the application semi-operational.
In addition to all this, Haddad said in a statement, “We still haven’t heard anything from any level on Twitter. If there’s a long-standing rule that we’ve been unknowingly breaking for the last 10 years, we’d like to know what it is so that we can follow it if possible.” said. After this statement of the partner, there was no response from Twitter.
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