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What was it, “Twitter, which may no longer have a public relations department, did not reply to a request for comments”?
True but they still managed to communicate the new timeline changes somehow. One would hope that someone could at least acknowledge an issue seven hours or so after it’s happened.
Tweetbot won't authorize, but Twitteriffic does
Something Bad Has Happened At Twitter
Twitterrific users are currently unable to access the service via the iOS app. As of this writing we have heard nothing officially from Twitter and are trying to learn more. This may just be a temporary bug; it may be more a more serious issue.
As soon as we know more we'll update this message. We thank you as always for your support and patience as we work through this problem.
- The Iconfactory Team
It would not surprise me if this is the end of third party clients and the new owner has removed access. Very disappointing if he has, particularly if he's done it with zero notice too. He has been making significant noise of feature changes in the official client coming in the next couple of weeks. Removing the third party client access would align with that, along with removing the little "posted by ..." note on ea…
Does anything stops devs from using the Web interface instead of the API? Sure it makes it a bit more challenging because parsing is involved but AFAIK it is completely legal to parse and display HTML output however you want. It's essentially like a browser add-on. I wonder if Twitter can be killed by the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy? So: 1. Make a client that combines Mastadon/Others and Twitter feeds, mak…
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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…
His comments on Taiwan were prompted comments in request to a question buried in some interview. He didn't rant about it. He hasn't ever mentioned it on Twitter. And how he was quoted was very different from what he actually said.
He showed everyone how in bed he is with the CCP.
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True but they still managed to communicate the new timeline changes somehow. One would hope that someone could at least acknowledge an issue seven hours or so after it’s happened.
Why would they acknowledge it? "We are killing our competitors" doesn't spin well, so might as well ignore it
Ironically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion. * https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163 There are additional reports in the #TwitterDown and #TweetBot hashtags on the FediVerse. * https://tapbots.social/tags/twitterdown * https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot
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https://know.me.uk/tags/tweetbot is a very different story, to pick an example. It's another Mastodon WWW server in the FediVerse but as can be seen almost none of today's news about TweetBot can be found there. One of the things about the FediVerse is that one cannot generalize about the entire FediVerse from what is visible from a single instance.
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Does anything stops devs from using the Web interface instead of the API? Sure it makes it a bit more challenging because parsing is involved but AFAIK it is completely legal to parse and display HTML output however you want. It's essentially like a browser add-on. I wonder if Twitter can be killed by the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy? So: 1. Make a client that combines Mastadon/Others and Twitter feeds, mak…
You will have 2 problems with this: 1) the law, at least in the US. Laws such as copyright and maybe even the CFAA have been abused to outlaw adversarial interoperability. You'd need to either practice good opsec and operate anonymously or be based out of reach of US-allied law enforcement. 2) Apple (and maybe Google too?) - they will remove any client for a third-party service unless said client has explicit approva…
As for the APIs being copyrightable see Google vs Oracle.
Ironically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion. * https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163 There are additional reports in the #TwitterDown and #TweetBot hashtags on the FediVerse. * https://tapbots.social/tags/twitterdown * https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot
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Australia and NZ experienced a 16h outage last week. Was there someone to fix it eventually? Sure. Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? I'm going with no. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/01/twitter-down-australia/
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Eventually, it became fairly rock solid, and has stayed like that since. A reversion to "oh, yeah, essential features are down for hours, that's just Twitter being Twitter" definitely feels like going back to the noughties.
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Does anything stops devs from using the Web interface instead of the API? Sure it makes it a bit more challenging because parsing is involved but AFAIK it is completely legal to parse and display HTML output however you want. It's essentially like a browser add-on. I wonder if Twitter can be killed by the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy? So: 1. Make a client that combines Mastadon/Others and Twitter feeds, mak…
I think you'll have the same problem as Twitter with #4!