It would not surprise me if this is the end of third party clients and the new owner has removed access. Very disappointing if he has, particularly if he's done it with zero notice too.<p>He has been making significant noise of feature changes in the official client coming in the next couple of weeks. Removing the third party client access would align with that, along with removing the little "posted by ..." note on each tweet a couple of months ago.<p>I wander if the new policy is that you can't have an app that's main feature is replicating the existing functionality of twitters main app. That seems to be the rumour over there.<p>Publishing apps like Buffer and Typefully are still working.
It's worth noting that we've been here before; back in 2012 Twitter attempted to curtail third party clients (albeit in a far more organised, less haphazard way): <a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4" rel="nofollow">https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4</a><p>Eventually, they stepped back from the brink, presumably after realising that it was a phenomenally stupid idea (while the fraction of Twitter users using third party clients is likely small, anyone who's anyone uses a third party client; this will vastly disproportionately hit influential users). We'll see if new leadership learns the same lesson.
Ironically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion.<p>* <a href="https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163" rel="nofollow">https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163</a><p>There are additional reports in the #TwitterDown and #TweetBot hashtags on the FediVerse.<p>* <a href="https://tapbots.social/tags/twitterdown" rel="nofollow">https://tapbots.social/tags/twitterdown</a><p>* <a href="https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot" rel="nofollow">https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot</a>
User-compiled list of banned apps: <a href="https://twitter.com/takke/status/1613796340869496832" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/takke/status/1613796340869496832</a><p>Edit: Direct link to Google Sheets: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O27Co27g2fWRon7gK79R8e4th6Xtort3bm289_2jhjQ/htmlview#" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O27Co27g2fWRon7gK79R...</a>
I only ever use Twitter via Tweetbot, which has never tried to show me something other than a chronological feed of posts from people I follow.<p>I have absolutely no interest in a curated timeline, so I guess I'm done with Twitter if the API doesn't start working again.
<a href="https://deadbird.singlepane.io" rel="nofollow">https://deadbird.singlepane.io</a> shows the API up but a trace of iOS Twitterific, Tweetbot, and Birdie shows an EoF response when api.twitter.com is called.<p>I’d wager a backend issue over a policy change as a 403/401 isn’t returned.
Unsurprisingly, the outage hasn't affected twitters own client.<p>Roll on May 2023. Unless twitter want to block the EU, they will have to provide the same level of access to 3rd party clients as they do their own. If the API is down for 3rd parties, but not for twitters own client, that will be considered a breach.
Other API apps like Movetodon and Tweetdelete still work, it looks like it's only third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterific that have stopped working.<p>They're also gone from my Connected Apps.<p>This makes it look deliberate.
I've been active on Twitter for the past 15 years, thanks to its API and nice clients such as Echofon and TweetBot.<p>I never understood anything to their website nor app, and will certainly not use Twitter any more if that becomes the only way to use it. What made Twitter great is its API and ecosystem around it.
Is this potentially retaliatory to negative responses to recent Twitter Blue changes?<p>I saw that Twitter started displaying Blue subscriber tweets in a rather obnoxious way, which resulted in non-subscribers removing and blocking subscribers. I’ve also seen that some users were subscribing Blue expecting their deboosting penalties to clear, only for it to be worsened.<p>That weakly suggests to me that Blue subscriber demographic is split between undesirable users, either undesirable to other users or to Twitter itself. If so, …
Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore
Since third-party clients don't make Twitter any ad revenue, I could see them making API access a feature of Blue in order to get revenue from those users.
Fenix also got removed from my connected apps and can no longer update its timeline. Feels like they're intentionally removing authorization for third party clients
I noticed an error on Twitter an hour ago. It looks like there are old school radio buttons peeking out from behind Twitter-style checkboxes that are (I think) supposed to cover them entirely: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/HCWmfgS" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/HCWmfgS</a>
This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..
Fenix, my favourite android twitter client is down too: <a href="https://twitter.com/mttvll/status/1613809046527541248" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mttvll/status/1613809046527541248</a>
Japanese Twitter app "feather" seems to have posted a screenshot of their Twitter API key being "suspended".<p><a href="https://twitter.com/feather_ios/status/1613749938428727297" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/feather_ios/status/1613749938428727297</a><p>That's certainly worrying.
Pretty sure my Twitter bot is still happily tweeting via API (on a periodic cron job, doesn't seem to have missed it's post schedule). I'm not at my computer right now but I'll check my logs later and see if I got any errors.
In case anyone is interested I made a browser extension which helps you transition to Mastodon. What it does is it injects Mastodon posts into your Twitter.com timeline so you can slowly but surely get exposure to more and more of the Fediverse while keeping the familiar Twitter UI.<p>It’s available here <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/lgiffpmohlpjlkclpmelkkfmjnlpafne?hl=en-GB&authuser=0" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/l...</a>
RIP. I’m hoping it’s temporary but not optimistic.<p>Could it be a coincidence that Twitter relaunched the algo timeline for everyone and within a day 3P clients that are linear-first stop working?<p>Although with the all the people laid off, who knows.
I can only see Twitter beginning to monetize third-party API access with some subscription plan whilst keeping the Twitter app free of charge (and protected with captchas, anti-botting tools, etc)<p>Either way, this demonstrates that it makes no sense to build an entire company soley on someone else's API.
It's been 16 hours and there's been no communication from Twitter on this. Do they not know what's going on? Not care? Have no respect for their third party partners?
Nitter[0][1] (which does not use the official API) still works.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/zedeus/nitter">https://github.com/zedeus/nitter</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances">https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances</a>
My site makes heavy use of the emoji font made by Twitter. They used to provide a CDN for it “<a href="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/twemoji.min.js?12.0.0”" rel="nofollow">https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/twemoji.min.js?12.0.0”</a>.<p>It seems to be down as well. I knew it would happen with the whole Elon Musk stuff but that still makes me very unhappy.
Whew I hope this isn’t permanent. I was just starting really like using Echofon to digest my twitter feed. Somehow I have a much more positive experience when I’m not being constantly suggested inflammatory tweets by people I don’t follow and third party apps allowed me what felt like more control there.
Sigh. How do I even use the official client in a reasonable way? I want to start over where I left off, with unread tweets left chronologically to scroll.<p>The official client all seem to show the most recent tweets so I have to scroll down backwards in time?
I wished everyone who Tweets would also post to the Fediverse. Because fediverse nodes like Mastodon support RSS out of the box.<p>Twitter is my only news source that I cannot consume via RSS. So if you publish something on Twitter, you miss most of my attention and only catch it if I log into Twitter that day.<p>Or post to your personal website and have it support RSS or Atom. It is super easy to implement. Or if you use a ready made cms like Wordpress, it usually supports it out of the box.
Don't worry, Clownlon will quickly rewrite the Twitter API service this weekend, make it as "beautiful as Niagra Falls", and hand it off to the Twitter engineers to maintain.
Good lord people... Why is everyone jumping to "this is the end of the Twitter API" when in reality it's late at night in California and is much more likely a simple outage. Everyone needs to cool their jets. I don't understand the hyperbole. Every new thing that happens at Twitter is a new "this is the end of Twitter" even though it never is.