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On Elon Musk’s Twitter, “long term” seems to mean “later this week.” The company appears to have changed its developer agreement to justify its ban on third-party clients. The change comes two days after his vague tweet to “enforce long-standing API rules.”
As internet sage Andy Baio pointed out, Twitter Developer Agreement Between the effective date of October 10, 2022 and January 19, 2023, only one change other than the effective date is indicated. This addition limits the developer’s ability to:
c) use or access the Licensed Material to create or attempt to create a service or product that replaces or is similar to the Twitter Application;
This led to an era in which third-party clients not only coexisted with Twitter’s official app (originally based on the early third-party app itself, Tweetie), but often introduced and promoted new features. In , Twitter put an end to it. Twitter’s official app and its website are the only reliable way to access the service.
Baio said third-party client Twitterific “first used a ‘tweet’ to describe an update, first used a bird icon, [was] In a post announcing Twitterific’s demise, developer Sean Heber attributed the app’s “sudden and disrespectful demise” to “an increasingly capricious Twitter that is no longer perceived as trustworthy.” It is.” Heber urged Twitterific subscribers not to request refunds, as thousands of refund requests would be “devastating for a small company like ours.”
Tweetbot co-creator Paul Haddad wryly pointed out on Mastodon that Twitter provided “some clarity” as to why his app was taken down. “I guess I didn’t realize a few hours ago what extended stay actually meant. Once again, I deeply apologize,” he wrote.
Twitter only officially tweeted, A highly defamatory ‘long-standing’ statement In an internal chat (subscription required) seen by The Information last week, a senior software engineer told an employee that the suspension of third-party apps was intentional. At the time, a product marketing manager said Twitter had “started working on communications” about the change, but much went unreported.
Twitter officially prohibits third-party clients that do not receive or display ads via our API, but you can pay for enhanced access. At the same time, the company faces a significant drop in advertising revenue and a large amount of upcoming debt payments. Elon Musk’s leveraged acquisition of social media networks. Musk’s recent timeline of his Twitter ownership noted that the entire API team responsible for working with third-party apps was laid off during a company-wide layoff in early November.
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