Twitter appears to have deliberately cut off third-party client access to its API. Since Thursday night, many of the most popular apps that you can use to scroll through Twitter bypassing the company’s own software, including Tweetbot and Twitterrific, have been down, with no official communication from Twitter. On Sunday, Information messages shared from Twitter’s internal Slack channels suggesting the company is aware of the outage and likely the cause as well.
“Third-party app suspensions are intentional,” read a message seen by the media on a channel that company engineers use to assess service interruptions. On Friday morning, an employee of Twitter’s product partnerships team reportedly asked when the team could expect from him a list of “approved talking points” related to “access revoked from third-party customers.” For Informationa product marketing manager told his coworker that morning that the company had “started working on communications” but could not offer a timeline for when they would be ready. Information notes that he was unable to learn the reasoning behind Twitter’s actions.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment. It hasn’t operated a communications department since Elon Musk began cutting the company’s workforce. Musk also did not tweet about the outage, and the developers of Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix and other third-party clients say they have not heard from the company. “We are as much in the dark as you are,” Paul Haddad, the co-creator of Tweetbot, wrote in a post. recent mastodon post.
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