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Twitter cuts off access to its API for third-party app developers

Erin Bensinger on January 16, 2023

News broke at several tech-focused outlets over the weekend that Twitter seems to have purposefully cut off API access for third-party app develope...
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Chris Jarvis •

Sad to see. They're making the site less usable. It's a real shame they didn't give developers a heads up that they were ending access to their API.

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Joe Mainwaring • • Edited

It hadn't come to mind but given the shift in demeanor at the company, the cutoff doesn't surprise me. An acquisition changes the rules for the games in-progress, and if it's not in writing as part of the deal, consider it up for interpretation by the new owner.

As a developer, I hope to still continue to retain access to the API as I have used it in the past to perform bulk delete operations. I would be inclined to converse elsewhere if access to my own content became restricted.

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Dhravya •

My apps, tweets.beauty and @poet_this are still running fine! Even LMFAO.tech is running fine, except that I slightly broke the login.

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Erin Bensinger •

Glad to hear it!

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{ TALAL_ALSHEHRI } •

I use Spring App twitter client and still work.

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Jon Randy 🎖️ •

IFTTT integration still seems to be working just fine

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Jan Vlnas •

Not surprising. The API still works, they just deliberately pulled the plug for the largest 3rd party clients.

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Christopher Duran •

Wow, Really Twitter goes worst,
I was thinking soon the APIs will stop working.
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Adesoji1 •

Why?

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John Peters •

The last 10 years of social platform dominance and its censorship will wash out in stock prices continuing to crash in 2023. Is any social platform worth over $300.00 with no PE ratio?

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neu-ma-tic •

me when funny

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Yuvraj Singh •

Every lock have atleast one key. Fastly, Its key will available.