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Twitter's API is down?

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Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by modeless »

carlivar wrote: post #21
sho wrote: post #18

This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..

I use the mobile web. It's better than the app, and switching to chronological is easy.

Agreed. I can't speak for iOS but the Android app is terrible. The font is too big and the scrolling is incredibly janky on high refresh rate displays. Mobile web is the only way to use Twitter on Android, and the PWA behaves mostly like a real app.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by minimaxir »

grecy wrote: post #23
sho wrote: post #18

This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..

Elon said recently there are big changes coming to the timeline so it can be whatever you want

Elon says a lot of things.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by tptacek »

iFred wrote: post #14

https://deadbird.singlepane.io shows the API up but a trace of iOS Twitterific, Tweetbot, and Birdie shows an EoF response when api.twitter.com is called. I’d wager a backend issue over a policy change as a 403/401 isn’t returned.

In addition to Tweetbot not working, it's been removed from my list of connected apps.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by notimetorelax »

philliphaydon wrote: post #30
minimaxir wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hard part for Twitter is figuring out who's left that can fix it.

I disagree, the day he took over twitter people were saying "it wont be up this weekend" "it will be down in a week" "it will be offline in 2 weeks"... yet the reality is, its up and running well. The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual. ---- Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kick…

Consider the quality of engineer of the departed team that allowed Twitter to run without incidents for so long. Also, change is the most frequent cause of incidents, as no one was pushing new changes there were fewer chances of an incident.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by mikkom »

philliphaydon wrote: post #30
minimaxir wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hard part for Twitter is figuring out who's left that can fix it.

I disagree, the day he took over twitter people were saying "it wont be up this weekend" "it will be down in a week" "it will be offline in 2 weeks"... yet the reality is, its up and running well. The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual. ---- Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kick…

It's not like the employees are some gnomes running the system by pulling levers so it is not surprising that rhe system seems to be running ok.

The problem arises at the point when there are bugs or other incidents and there is nobody who can fix them.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by kalleboo »

Other API apps like Movetodon and Tweetdelete still work, it looks like it's only third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterific that have stopped working.

They're also gone from my Connected Apps.

This makes it look deliberate.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by Hamuko »

kalleboo wrote: post #13

Since third-party clients don't make Twitter any ad revenue, I could see them making API access a feature of Blue in order to get revenue from those users.

It'd be very Elon-like to ignore that there are countries other than US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK.
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