Twitter's API is down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by veidr » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:48 AM UTC

MBehr2 wrote: post #8

Tweetbot can't authorize, but Twitteriffic authorizes and works

Hmm, 7 minutes after your post, my Twitteriffic still fails and is stuck on the "Sign in with Twitter" screen.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#12

Post by tptacek » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 4:58 AM UTC

Can confirm: Tweetbot suddenly stopped working for me, on macOS, a couple hours ago.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#13

Post by kalleboo » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:05 AM UTC

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.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

#14

Post by iFred » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:13 AM UTC

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.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by rvz » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:18 AM UTC

I can only see Twitter beginning to monetize third-party API access with some subscription plan whilst keeping the Twitter app free of charge (and protected with captchas, anti-botting tools, etc)

Either way, this demonstrates that it makes no sense to build an entire company soley on someone else's API.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by jaygreco » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:32 AM UTC

RIP. I’m hoping it’s temporary but not optimistic.

Could it be a coincidence that Twitter relaunched the algo timeline for everyone and within a day 3P clients that are linear-first stop working?

Although with the all the people laid off, who knows.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by minimaxir » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

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.

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

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by sho » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 6:05 AM UTC

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..

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by robga » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 6:08 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

Maybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Tweetbot for Mastodon.

“You’re either with us or against us”.

Re: Twitter's API is down?

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Post by r721 » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 6:16 AM UTC

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 twitter.com in desktop browser, and chronological timeline is still there (accessible via "sparkle icon").