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Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have been non-functional for many since late Thursday night. The social network doesn’t seem to inform the app developer why.
Tweetbot co-creator Paul Haddad responded to tech journalist Casey Newton’s post about multiple third-party clients failing on Thursday at 11:10 p.m. Did. [it’s] Is it a bug…” tweet from the official account tweet bot When Twitteriffic A client on Thursday night confirmed a communication issue.account of on the phone posted shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Friday, stating that they were working to resolve the issue and that “Twitter has yet to respond.”
Haddad told TechCrunch that the connectivity issue began at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, when all API requests from his app failed. In a post on Twitter’s developer forums, many Twitter-based app developers noticed that their apps were listed as “suspended” or displayed invalid credentials. indicates that there is
Fenix for Android stopped, no contact from Twitter.
It’s probably an automated action, but I doubt they’ll contact me again to fix the problem. pic.twitter.com/OUJtusaW2A— Matteo Villa (@mttvll) January 13, 2023
It doesn’t look like all 3rd party clients are broken at this time. Ars staff have successfully updated the data tool to pull in Twitter data and have heard from Tweeten client users that it is still working. TweetDeck, an alternative client owned by Twitter, appeared to work Friday morning.Third party client Fenix for Android was listed as ‘paused’‘ says developer Matteo Villa. That iOS version was still working.
Twitter’s uneven history with third-party clients, and the company’s recent history of making unannounced changes with seemingly unforeseen consequences, make this likely more of a sudden policy shift than an API glitch. It has spurred the debate that there is.
Twitter outspokenly told developers to stop building client apps in early 2011, changed its API to severely limit them in mid-2012, and removed auto-updates and push notifications in 2018. bottom. Anticipate operational failures in a company as workers with knowledge of existing systems leave without replacement.
Twitter could not be reached for comment because the public relations department reportedly no longer exists. As of 11am, the company has yet to comment on the API outage or related third-party issues with his client. Twitter owner Elon Musk said at 9:06 a.m. that he changed the placement of his bookmarks, cropped images, andOther minor bug fixes next week.”
