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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..
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
And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 wish Twitterific made a Mastodon client, its great UX compared to the official Twitter app is one of the major reasons I was still using Twitter. And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-...
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”.
My agua fresca would like a word with whoever came up with this.
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.
The system is running as good as before. The only thing I've noticed is theres more ad's than usual.
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Edit: Currently there isn't any outage of Twitter as far as anyone knows. It looks like 3rd party apps have been kicked to the curb.
A ~16hr regional outage in AU/NZ is not indicitive of anything. In 2021 Facebook had a global ~7hr outage.
Since Musk took over we haven't had all the downtime and disruption everyone kept claiming we would have. Big companies haven outages too, but so far the death of Twitter isn't in sight.
Also: I hate Musk since his comments on Ukraine and Taiwan. So don't take my comments as trying to stick up with Musk. I'm not, I hope he loses all his money and becomes broke.