The Morning After: Twitter might have intentionally minimize off third-party app entry

Twitter seems to have intentionally minimize off third-party shoppers from accessing its API. Since Thursday night, lots of the hottest apps that scroll Twitter with out going by means of the corporate’s personal software program, together with Tweetbot and Twitterrific, haven’t labored, with no official communication from Twitter. On Sunday, a report from The Info featured messages from Twitter’s inner Slack channels that advised the corporate is conscious of the outage – and is probably going the reason for it. “Third-party app suspensions are intentional,” reads one message in a channel the corporate’s engineers use to repair service disruptions.

Within the final 24 hours, Tweetbot briefly got here again on-line, however then fizzled out once more. Does Twitter really need us to reinstall its app or use it in our net browsers? Will this work, or will extra of us simply flip off Twitter solely?

– Mat Smith

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