![]() ![]() We’re hoping this is just a temporary glitch and will let you know more as soon as we know more. 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. Tweetdeck, luckily, is unaffected by the API downtime, but Tweetbot is not so lucky. This includes Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and many more. In addition to Twitter's own official Android, iOS, and macOS applications, no third-party apps are working at the moment. On Thursday evening, users began reporting that third-party applications were responding with Twitter API-related error messages. It appears that Twitter has blocked access to the API. These apps were widely used among users because of their non-algorithmic display of tweets, which we developed on Twitter API. Weetbot and Twitterrific, two popular third-party clients, are apparently no longer allowed by Twitter. It turned out to be an intentional decision as per reports by The Information. On Thursday, Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients mysteriously stopped working. 4041 user computer literacy and, 156 Tapbots, LLC Tweetbot app, 100. ![]() “We’re in the dark just as much as you are,” wrote Paul Haddad, the co-creator of Tweetbot in a recent Mastodon post.Rapid changes have hit microblogging site Twitter during the past several weeks, ever since Elon Musk took control of the firm. Perfecting Interface Design in Mobile Apps Cameron Banga, Josh Weinhold. Musk has also not tweeted about the outage, and the developers of Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix and other third-party clients say they’ve not heard anything from the company. It has not operated a communications department since Elon Musk started downsizing the company’s workforce. Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request. I also used TweetBot on iOS before switching to Android and Falcon Pro has been the best Twitter client I've used by far. The Information notes it could not learn the reasoning behind Twitter’s actions. Falcon Pro is arguably the reigning king of Android Twitter apps. On Friday morning, one employee on Twitter’s product partnerships team reportedly asked when their team could expect a list of “approved talking points” related to “3party clients revoked access.” Per The Information, a product marketing manager told their co-worker that same morning that the company had “started to work on comms,” but could not offer a timeline for when those would be ready. All software platforms are affected, but its worse on iOS and Android where users. “Third-party app suspensions are intentional,” reads one message seen by the outlet in a channel the company’s engineers use to triage service disruptions. If you use an app like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings, or Twitterrific. On Sunday, The Information shared messages from Twitter’s internal Slack channels that suggest the company is aware of the outage and likely the cause of it as well. ![]() ![]() Since Thursday evening, many of the most popular apps you can use to scroll Twitter without going through the company’s own software, including Tweetbot and Twitterrific, have not worked, with no official communication from Twitter. Twitter appears to have deliberately cut off third-party clients from accessing its API. ![]()
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