Meanwhile, podcaster and journalist Jason Snell says he’s heard “from someone who says someone at Twitter told them the API shutdown is absolutely intentional.” Ultimately, though, Snell says he has “no way to know if that’s legit or not.” 9to5Mac’s Take Unfortunately I don’t have many contacts at Twitter anymore so doubt I’ll get any kind of definitive answer soon.Īs of Friday afternoon, Haddad said that he still has not heard any news, “official or otherwise,” about what’s going on. I’m hoping that whatever is going on at Twitter is just some automated spam protection bot that is incorrectly suspending proper apps, or something similar. Tweetbot developer Paul Haddad wrote on Mastodon last night: We hope that this is a temporary outage and will provide you with more details as soon as we get them.Īs both companies point out, Twitter has not communicated with developers regarding this issue at all. We’ve reached out to Twitter for more details, but as of yet have not heard anything back. We’re hoping this is just a temporary glitch and will let you know more as soon as we know more.Ī pop up in the Tweetbot app further explains:Īt 7:30 PM PST on January 12th, access to Twitter from Tweetbot and many other 3rd party apps have stopped working. We’ve reached out to Twitter for more details, but haven’t heard back. Tweetbot and other clients are experiencing problems logging in to Twitter. Tapbots, the developers of Tweetbot, say: We thank you as always for your support and patience as we work through this problem. This may just be a temporary bug it may be more a more serious issue.Īs soon as we know more we’ll update this message. As of this writing we have heard nothing officially from Twitter and are trying to learn more. Twitterrific users are currently unable to access the service via the iOS app. “Something bad has happened at Twitter,” the warning explains. The Iconfactory, developers of Twitteriffic, is now directing users to a webpage explaining the outage when they open the app. When you open Tweetbot, for example, you see an error message explaining that there was a “problem authenticating with Twitter.” This means that popular third-party Twitter apps like Twitteriffic and Tweetbot are completely broken. Twitter API change breaks Tweetbot, othersĪs we reported overnight, Twitter’s official API for developers is almost entirely offline. This is leading some people to speculate that this change is intentional and that Twitter is shutting down third-party clients altogether. Despite growing complaints from Twitter users and developers alike, Elon Musk has remained silent. Tweetbot, Twitteriffic, and other popular third-party clients for Twitter are still completely broken due to issues with Twitter’s API.
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