The policy change is dated for 27 Jan, that means anything working today,
will not be working for long.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Herbie Allen wrote:
It’s been that way for a week. Some things are still working though like
Tweesecake and TWBlue.
On Jan 27, 2023, at 11:06, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote:
Its official, see the article below.
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Twitter officially bans third-party clients after cutting off prominent devs
Kyle Wiggers 1 week
After cutting off prominent app makers like Tweetbot and Twitterific,
Twitter today quietly updated its developer terms to ban third-party
clients altogether.
Spotted by Engadget, the "restrictions" section of Twitter's
5,000-some-word developer agreement was updated with a clause
prohibiting "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt
to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter
Applications." Earlier this week, Twitter said that it was "enforcing
long-standing API rules" in disallowing clients access to its platform
but didn't cite which specific rules developers were violating. Now we
know -- retroactively.
As Engadget notes, Twitter clients are a part of Twitter history --
Twitterific was created before Twitter had a native iOS app of its own.
And they've gained a larger following in recent years, thanks in part
to their lack of ads.
Twitter's attitude toward third-party clients has long been permissive
and even supportive, with the company going so far as to remove a
section from its developer terms that discouraged devs from replicating
its core service. But that seems to have changed under CEO Elon Musk's
leadership.
Twitter dev terms
Image Credits: Twitter
The decision seems unlikely to foster goodwill toward Twitter at a time
when the platform faces challenges on a number of fronts. In a blog
post, Twitterrific's Sean Heber called Twitter "increasingly
capricious" and a company he "no longer recognize[d] as trustworthy nor
want to work with any longer." Matteo Villa, the developer of Fenix, in
an interview with Engadget called the lack of communication
"insulting." (Twitter has no communications department at present.)
Twitter is under immense pressure to turn a profit -- or at least break
even -- as advertisers flee the platform, spurred by unpredictable,
fast-changing content policies. The company, which has $12.5 billion in
debt, is on the hook for $300 million in its first interest payment and
has lost an estimated $4 billion in value since Musk acquired it at the
end of October 2022. Fidelity recently slashed the value of its stake
in Twitter by 56%.
Cutbacks at Twitter abound. Some employees are bringing their own
toilet paper to work after the company reduced janitorial services, the
New York Times reported, and Twitter has stopped paying rent for
several of its offices. Musk has elsewhere attempted to save around
$500 million in costs unrelated to labor, shutting down a data center
and launching a fire sale after putting office items up for auction in
a bid to recoup costs.
Twitter's also heavily pushing its Twitter Blue plan (now with an
annual option), aiming to make it a profit driver. It plans to lift its
ban on political ads, chasing after campaign dollars in the 2024 U.S.
elections. And the company is reportedly considering selling usernames
through online auctions.
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