Although nothing was said by Twitter, The Information heard from sources working at Twitter that access to third-party apps was intentionally suspended. This widespread outage is occurring across all third-party apps including Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and many others on iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows.Īt first, it was unclear whether the issue had been caused by a temporary outage or by an intentional decision. ET on January 12, many Twitter users noticed that third-party clients were throwing back error messages related to the Twitter API. The statement doesn’t say what rules are being changed or enforced, and why the company didn’t inform Twitter’s third-party client developers in advance about this change.Īround 11 p.m. In a new tweet posted to the official Twitter Dev profile, which is focused on providing useful information for developers working with the Twitter API, the company said it is “enforcing its long-standing API rules.” As a result, it acknowledges that some apps are “not working.”
Twitter says it is changing the rules of its API Today, Twitter continues to disrespect developers, this time with a weak explanation of what’s going on with its API. Since then, not even Twitter or its new owner Elon Musk (who likes to talk a lot on the social network) have addressed this issue. Both users and developers of Twitter’s third-party clients were surprised last week when many popular apps like Tweetbot stopped working out of the blue.
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