Twitter's API is down?

#1

Post by mvid » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 3:51 AM UTC

Getting an error loop on Tweetbot on all accounts:

Re-authorization Failed Failed to request token from Twitter.com:: service unavailable

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#2

Post by lukaszkorecki » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:07 AM UTC

Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

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#3

Post by MBCook » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

lukaszkorecki wrote: post #2

Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

As Sean Heber, a Twitterific developer, posted it’s now a game of wait and see if this is policy or just an outage.

If it’s not an outage, I guess I expected more ceremony around this.

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#4

Post by pureeville » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:25 AM UTC

Shouldn't Tweetbot be in my Connected apps? It's not anymore.

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#5

Post by veidr » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:26 AM UTC

lukaszkorecki wrote: post #2

Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

I don't post to Twitter, but I still sometimes use Twitterrific to read it since not everybody I enjoy there has successfully moved to Mastodon.

(Although tbh it is only William Gibson, David Frum, and Grady Booch that keep me reading Twitter.)

I too thought the 'garch might have abruptly pulled the plug on the API. But then, I installed the Twitter iOS app and tried that, and it emitted a cascade of error screens, too.

So if I had to bet a dollar, I'd bet on "shit malfunctioning".

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#6

Post by MBCook » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:28 AM UTC

pureeville wrote: post #4

Shouldn't Tweetbot be in my Connected apps? It's not anymore.

I’m seeing others report the same thing. I have a Tweetbot in my connected app list, but that could be an old version somehow.

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#7

Post by MBehr2 » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:39 AM UTC

Tweetbot won't authorize, but Twitteriffic does

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#8

Post by MBehr2 » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:40 AM UTC

Tweetbot can't authorize, but Twitteriffic authorizes and works

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#9

Post by skiddo » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:41 AM UTC

lukaszkorecki wrote: post #2

Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

Hope this is a good old fashioned outage. However, after the “sent from” feature was recently removed, I have a hard time believing the owner has a positive opinion on the existence of the API. A shame how much it has been pared down already.

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#10

Post by nkozyra » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC

MBehr2 wrote: post #8

Tweetbot can't authorize, but Twitteriffic authorizes and works

Many many people on social media reporting Twitterriffic down too

From the source: https://twitter.com/Twitterrific/status/1613755585727447040