The failure of Twitter’s third-party clients is said to be intentional. But again no official communication.
Twitter intentionally deny third-party clients access to its API. As of Thursday evening, many popular third-party apps that can be used to browse Twitter without going through the company’s proprietary solutions, including Tweetbot and Twitterrific, stopped working without official communication from Twitter. This Sunday, The Information shared news from the company’s internal Slack channels suggesting that the latter is aware of the outage and that it is even at its origin.
The failure of Twitter’s third-party clients is said to be intentional
“Third-party app locks are by design,” reads one of the channel posts highlighted by US Blog for the company’s engineers to review service disruptions. This Friday morning, an employee of Twitter’s product partnerships team reportedly asked his colleagues when they might have a list of “approved talking points” to “revoke third-party access.”
According to The Information, a product marketing executive responded shortly after the company “started working on communications,” but couldn’t provide a specific timeline. The information explains that it was not possible to establish the reasons for Twitter’s actions.
But again no official communication
Since Elon Musk took over the helm of the company, there hasn’t been a team dedicated to communications. An official answer is therefore not possible. Especially since the American billionaire didn’t tweet anything about this service disruption and the developers to whom we owe Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix and so many other third-party customers all claim to have received no feedback from Twitter. . “We’re just as in the dark as you are,” wrote Paul Haddad, co-creator of Tweetbot, in a recent post on Mastodon.