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Twitter's API is down?
Getting an error loop on Tweetbot on all accounts:
Re-authorization Failed
Failed to request token from Twitter.com:: service unavailable
- lukaszkorecki 4y agoSame 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
- MBCook 4y agoAs 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.
- minimaxir 4y agoElon's Twitter is the exact opposite of ceremony.
- veidr 4y agoI don't post to Twitter, but I still sometimes use Twitterrific to read it since not everybody I enjoy there has successfully moved to Mastodon. (Although tbh it is only William Gibson, David Frum, and Grady Booch that keep me reading Twitter.) I too thought the 'garch might have abruptly pulled the plug on the API. But then, I installed the Twitter iOS app and tried that, and it emitted a cascade of error screens, too. So if I had to bet a dollar, I'd bet on "shit malfunctioning".
- scraplab 4y agoFWIW, William Gibson is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal
- veidr 4y agoI know, but (like a lot of people) he didn't end up posting there after signing up. Although Mastodon ended up being "about as good" for me (who just reads it when e.g. waiting in a line or something) as Twitter, there are these few people like him who made my Twitter feed something special who aren't really active on Mastodon. (BTW indie dev world, I've paid money for years for Twitterrific and would definitely pay money for a client that did a reasonable job of showing me people I follow on various social brainfart networks, all in one place).
- skiddo 4y agoHope this is a good old fashioned outage. However, after the “sent from” feature was recently removed, I have a hard time believing the owner has a positive opinion on the existence of the API. A shame how much it has been pared down already.
- robga 4y agoMaybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/ https://tapbots.com/ivory/ Tweetbot for Mastodon. “You’re either with us or against us”.
- wildpeaks 4y agoI 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.
- dstaley 4y agoThe makers of Tweetbot are making a Mastodon client! https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-app/ https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-...
- fatfox 4y agohttps://tapbots.com/ivory/ https://tapbots.com/ivory/ and they just released a roadmap :) looks very promising
- szundi 4y agomaybe this is the culprit then
- wildpeaks 4y agoI'm looking forward to trying it when more Testflight spots open up, it will be a day one purchase when released.
- robga 4y agoThey’ve said they expect to release publicly by the end of the month. I don’t Mastodon much, but the beta is my only client and slick to use.
- samwillis 4y agoThat is a very sensible proactive move on the part of the team, they must have both been concerned about the future viability of third party twitter clients, and the potential of Mastodon as a new market. From what I've heard the Mastodon client they are building is very good, it's in closed beta right now.
- pureeville 4y agoShouldn't Tweetbot be in my Connected apps? It's not anymore.
- MBCook 4y agoI’m seeing others report the same thing. I have a Tweetbot in my connected app list, but that could be an old version somehow.
- MBehr2 4y agoTweetbot won't authorize, but Twitteriffic does
- damontal 4y agoHere’s what I see: 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
- MBehr2 4y agoTweetbot can't authorize, but Twitteriffic authorizes and works
- nkozyra 4y agoMany many people on social media reporting Twitterriffic down too From the source: https://twitter.com/Twitterrific/status/1613755585727447040 https://twitter.com/Twitterrific/status/1613755585727447040
- veidr 4y agoHmm, 7 minutes after your post, my Twitteriffic still fails and is stuck on the "Sign in with Twitter" screen.
- timmytokyo 4y agoYou were probably using an auth token that hadn't yet expired. If you reauthorize, it will probably fail.
- tptacek 4y agoCan confirm: Tweetbot suddenly stopped working for me, on macOS, a couple hours ago.
- kalleboo 4y agoSince 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.
- jesterson 4y agoThat would be actually great - I don't mind paying to avoid annoying ads
- Hamuko 4y agoIt'd be very Elon-like to ignore that there are countries other than US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and the UK.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoGiven that his entire [claimed] rationale is “restoring free speech in America” you can scratch countries 2-6 off that list.
- mnd999 4y agoThe rationale is to control the narrative and align Twitter’s politics with his own. It’s just like the hundred other rich dudes who bought newspapers over the years.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoSure. I should have said “claimed rationale”.
- Lutger 4y agoTrying to be the new Rupert Murdoch, but failing.
- concordDance 4y agoAdmittedly there being a big right wing social media would be an interesting change. Curious to see how it goes (from a distance as I don't use twitter).
- iFred 4y agohttps://deadbird.singlepane.io 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.
- minimaxir 4y agoThe hard part for Twitter is figuring out who's left that can fix it.
- philliphaydon 4y agoI 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 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.
- KyeRussell 4y agoIf you’re going to argue against what “people” say, you’re always going to look like you’re the smart one and the person you’re disagreeing with is the stupid one.
- notimetorelax 4y agoConsider 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.
- rvz 4y agoI 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.
- andirk 4y agoSomeone should have told Slide, "the creators of SuperPoke!" Besides that tagline about making a useless Facebook add-on feature that already existed, their recruiters never did explain what they did beyond like 3 Facebook API calls.
- shapefrog 4y ago> 4 Aug 2010 — Google pays $182 million for SuperPoke Pets! creator Slide Glad I didn't depended on someone else's API, made 3 calls and got paid $182 mil in 2010 $$'s
- andirk 4y agoI saw that too and I highly doubt Google bought the company for their SuperPoke routine but rather for their suite of products like the Pets and the data that comes along with it. Those 3 API calls may have put them on the map but that's probably not what made them valuable.
- jaygreco 4y agoRIP. 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.
- sho 4y agoThis 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..
- r721 4y agoI use twitter.com in desktop browser, and chronological timeline is still there (accessible via "sparkle icon").
- numpad0 4y agoThat’s chronological but still algorithmic.
- natch 4y agoSure, technically, chronological ordering is an algorithm. I wonder what you would want. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- numpad0 4y agoTweets flowing at 250kbps or more 24/7, of course… Edit: the way “chronological” timeline works is, Twitter decides on your social graph and hide posts until it fits your serving. Shadowbans, Boosting and Deboosting are factored in as well. That is technically chronological, only technically.
- r721 4y ago>the way “chronological” timeline works is, Twitter decides on your social graph and hide posts until it fits your serving. Shadowbans, Boosting and Deboosting are factored in as well. That is technically chronological, only technically. Source? The thing is I compare chronological timeline with lists (of users I follow) all the time, and I didn't notice any missing tweets. "Shadowbanned" tweets always were visible in lists, I personally checked that.
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- kalleboo 4y agoOther 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.
- acherion 4y agoI checked my Connected Apps list and can still see Tweetbot there, but it said I approved those permissions back in 2011, is ”Tweetbot for iOS” the same as the current Tweetbot available in the App Store?
- vsl 4y agoNo. The current subscription-based version required new auth when released (was a separate app).
- kalleboo 4y agoDevelopers are saying their apps are showing as "SUSPENDED" due to rule violations in the Twitter developer console https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903 https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903 https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/109682991853787913 https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/109682991853787913
- kevingadd 4y agoFenix also got removed from my connected apps and can no longer update its timeline. Feels like they're intentionally removing authorization for third party clients
- kalleboo 4y agoThe Fenix developer has said his app was suspended from Twitter for rule violations https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903 https://mastodon.social/@mttvll/109680889237002903
- anigbrowl 4y agoMy API access is working fine
- ablatt89 4y agoDon't worry, Clownlon will quickly rewrite the Twitter API service this weekend, make it as "beautiful as Niagra Falls", and hand it off to the Twitter engineers to maintain.
- naet 4y agoPretty sure my Twitter bot is still happily tweeting via API (on a periodic cron job, doesn't seem to have missed it's post schedule). I'm not at my computer right now but I'll check my logs later and see if I got any errors.
- computerfriend 4y agoSame. The API seems fine, just specific applications that have had their access revoked.
- wut42 4y agoThis. I immediately checked my IRC/IM bots and other tools that uses the API, they still work perfectly. So it looks like it's a sort of crackdown against third-party clients, and not API wind-down or technical issue (why would a technical issue only block some?).
- gnicholas 4y agoI noticed an error on Twitter an hour ago. It looks like there are old school radio buttons peeking out from behind Twitter-style checkboxes that are (I think) supposed to cover them entirely: https://imgur.com/a/HCWmfgS https://imgur.com/a/HCWmfgS
- chucky123 4y agoWould be interesting to inspect element and see if there are new radio options.
- samwillis 4y agoIt 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 each tweet a couple of months ago. I wander if the new policy is that you can't have an app that's main feature is replicating the existing functionality of twitters main app. That seems to be the rumour over there. Publishing apps like Buffer and Typefully are still working.
- raverbashing 4y agoNah, most likely Elon pulled the plug on one of those servers that "nobody knew what it was used for" and brought the API down (or maybe API prod was running in somebody's computer and their office got evicted - who knows)
- samwillis 4y agoIt's clear that it's not a general API outage, specific "reader" apps have been removed/blocked, including from peoples "authorised apps" in their accounts. This is not an "API Outage", I think we can be 99.9% sure it's a removal of specific apps.
- Nextgrid 4y agoCould it just be an anti-abuse system going wrong, and reader apps are targeted because they exceed some threshold? Even with Musk's antics I don't see what would they gain by blocking API clients without announcing it - it would take Musk 30 seconds to tweet "oh btw third-party clients are done for" and would at least give everyone clarity.
- samwillis 4y agoOk, so you may be right and my estimate of 99.9% is probably over zealous. But to play devils advocate, say you are thinking of removing third party apps. You want to test the waters and see if users who use them continue to visit at the same rate when forced to use the official client. You schedule a quite "blocking" of the apps for the evening PT, your team can happily sleep through the noise generated and have the data in the morning from Asia/Europe of how people reacted. In the morning you make the call as to whether to stick with the plan or say it was an errant moderation bot. That may be to much 4d chess though...
- numpad0 4y agoUser-compiled list of banned apps: https://twitter.com/takke/status/1613796340869496832 https://twitter.com/takke/status/1613796340869496832 Edit: Direct link to Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O27Co27g2fWRon7gK79R8e4th6Xtort3bm289_2jhjQ/htmlview# https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O27Co27g2fWRon7gK79R...
- SllX 4y agoIronically I’m having trouble reading this because I’m on my phone and Twitter URLs go to Tweetbot. So I’m guessing that’s on the list.
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- numpad0 4y agoTwitter allowing ban evasion and discussions about it had been a real clever move IMO. Users make a lot of noises and calls for exodus, none working, because it always happens inside the very platform.
- satvikpendem 4y agoIndeed, never discount network effects. The amount of people that moved to Mastodon (and crucially, have actually continued posting there and haven't moved back) is miniscule compared to Twitter's overall userbase.
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- viraptor 4y agoIt's not really "none working". It's different from community to community. Some of them did close to a mass migration. Enough that my plain Twitter timeline is extremely quiet now. Not everyone will see the same effects though.
- foreverobama 4y ago[dead]
- Febra33 4y agoDid someone play around with the servers again? :) Maybe he chewed on some server cables this time
- nathias 4y agoit's working for my scripts
- JdeBP 4y agoIronically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion. * https://tapbots.social/@paul/109679939029741163 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/twitterdown * https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot https://tapbots.social/tags/tweetbot
- mlindner 4y ago[flagged]
- JdeBP 4y agoA lot less than you think. There's no such thing as "on Mastodon" and I picked https://tapbots.social https://tapbots.social quite carefully, as it's the instance where discussions about TweetBot are most likely to be replicated, given that it's the instance run by Tapbots. One has to pick the right communities, in the FediVerse. https://know.me.uk/tags/tweetbot 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.
- pwdisswordfisha 4y agoIf we're being so pedantic, you have misspelt 'Fediverse'.
- rapnie 4y agoIt is not pedantic, as "Mastodon" is massively misnomered, and used where either the Fediverse or its open standard protocol ActivityPub is actually referred to. And as that happens more and more people get confused about this, so it prolongs if not pointed out at any opportunity.
- sprkwd 4y agoWell, I hope they don’t mess with Tweetdeck.
- numpad0 4y agoIs this potentially retaliatory to negative responses to recent Twitter Blue changes? I saw that Twitter started displaying Blue subscriber tweets in a rather obnoxious way, which resulted in non-subscribers removing and blocking subscribers. I’ve also seen that some users were subscribing Blue expecting their deboosting penalties to clear, only for it to be worsened. That weakly suggests to me that Blue subscriber demographic is split between undesirable users, either undesirable to other users or to Twitter itself. If so, …
- heystefan 4y ago> I saw that Twitter started displaying Blue subscriber tweets in a rather obnoxious way What way is that? Looks the same on my end.
- rchaud 4y agoI don't think that would have any impact on API downtime. The issue with the new Twitter Blue users is one of adverse selection. Those that are 'verified' pre-takeover usually understand how Twitter works, in terms of how to drive engagement, likes etc. Those that are new Twitter Blue-verified, are not as experienced, and it's pretty clear from the content of their tweets that they have recently purchased their status.
- mg 4y agoI wished everyone who Tweets would also post to the Fediverse. Because fediverse nodes like Mastodon support RSS out of the box. Twitter is my only news source that I cannot consume via RSS. So if you publish something on Twitter, you miss most of my attention and only catch it if I log into Twitter that day. Or post to your personal website and have it support RSS or Atom. It is super easy to implement. Or if you use a ready made cms like Wordpress, it usually supports it out of the box.
- rcarmo 4y agoI do the reverse. My primary is now Mastodon, and I use a relay. I do have to pop into the birdsite to check replies, though. That's about all I do with it now.
- 185504a9 4y agojust a tip, if you really need it for some interesting accounts, you can consume twitter feeds as RSS by using nitter, eg: https://nitter.net/dril/rss https://nitter.net/dril/rss
- Hamuko 4y agoJapanese Twitter app "feather" seems to have posted a screenshot of their Twitter API key being "suspended". https://twitter.com/feather_ios/status/1613749938428727297 https://twitter.com/feather_ios/status/1613749938428727297 That's certainly worrying.
- kalleboo 4y agoFenix and Twitteriffic developer have also confirmed their apps have been suspended
- tuzemec 4y agoFenix, my favourite android twitter client is down too: https://twitter.com/mttvll/status/1613809046527541248 https://twitter.com/mttvll/status/1613809046527541248
- alexdoesstuff 4y agoSeconding the appreciation of Fenix. Using the official app after being accustomed to Fenix is such a let down.
- KVFinn 4y agoActually Fenix being blocked would get me to use Twitter less. The official app is so annoying.
- pks016 4y agoSame. I have reduced my usage since last month. If they block Fenix, that's it from me.
- smcl 4y agoSurely someone at Twitter has to say something official about whats going on here. There’s no way they can continue radio silence.
- masklinn 4y agoWhat was it, “Twitter, which may no longer have a public relations department, did not reply to a request for comments”?
- smcl 4y agoTrue 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.
- mvid 4y agoWhy would they acknowledge it? "We are killing our competitors" doesn't spin well, so might as well ignore it
- smcl 4y agoIf that is their intent, then yeah - bit ruthless and self-defeating but I sort of get it. But it is a possibility that there was a fuckup, some clients got deleted, and they’re either working on resolving it (and failing) or the only people left who can fix it are in a time zone where they’re still asleep. eh we will see I suppose
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago> Surely someone at Twitter has to say something official about whats going on here. There’s no way they can continue radio silence. Why not?
- mlindner 4y agoGood lord people... Why is everyone jumping to "this is the end of the Twitter API" when in reality it's late at night in California and is much more likely a simple outage. Everyone needs to cool their jets. I don't understand the hyperbole. Every new thing that happens at Twitter is a new "this is the end of Twitter" even though it never is.
- smcl 4y agoI have seen a handful of “this is it” comments out of ~180 in total and they were all downvoted to 0 or less. Most of the rest of the comments are people trying to figure out wtf works and doesn’t or people speculating if Twitter are moving to kill off 3rd Party apps (and whether they’d have to move to Twitter mobile web).
- mlindner 4y agoAlmost every top post is a "this is it" post, along with many of the second level posts on the top posts that aren't.
- smcl 4y agoThe top few comments are… Top: speculating about 3p clients “It would not surprise me if this is the end of third party clients …” Second: about lack of comms, “Ironically, we can know about this through posts to the FediVerse from the developer of Tweetbot, and ensuing discussion.” Third: list of banned clients Fourth: link to API status visualisation Fifth: your comment Sixth: someone saying that they don’t want to use Twitters own app so they’ll just quit are we looking at the same thing?
- mlindner 4y agoThey've reshuffled a bit since I posted. The second was the top. The sixth was father down. My comment isn't in the top posts. Top is fine, second is one of them, third is one of them (nothing's banned as far as we know), fourth has several top level posts saying it, seventh that you don't list is another "this is it".
- rsynnott 4y agoIt's worth noting that we've been here before; back in 2012 Twitter attempted to curtail third party clients (albeit in a far more organised, less haphazard way): https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4 https://thenextweb.com/news/twitter-4 Eventually, they stepped back from the brink, presumably after realising that it was a phenomenally stupid idea (while the fraction of Twitter users using third party clients is likely small, anyone who's anyone uses a third party client; this will vastly disproportionately hit influential users). We'll see if new leadership learns the same lesson.
- marban 4y agoI was the creator of Twidroyd (First and biggest Android Twitter app w/ ~70% marketshare) and there was a larger story behind the first big anti-3rd party move. Basically we had some plans to bring users over to a new network after we got acquired by Idealab — and Twitter got wind of it. Think Mastodon 2010 style.
- insomniacity 4y agoUhh, need more details! What happened?
- lawgimenez 4y agoTwidroyd was one of my frequently used clients back when I had a Nexus phone, along with Seesmic client.
- marban 4y agoNexus was already a Mercedes phone. We started when there wasn't even a physical device on the market.
- dmak 4y agoJuicy story. I'm all ears.
- Southworth 4y agoThis sounds fascinating, would love to hear more?
- cojoke 4y agoWhew I hope this isn’t permanent. I was just starting really like using Echofon to digest my twitter feed. Somehow I have a much more positive experience when I’m not being constantly suggested inflammatory tweets by people I don’t follow and third party apps allowed me what felt like more control there.
- jedisct1 4y agoI've been active on Twitter for the past 15 years, thanks to its API and nice clients such as Echofon and TweetBot. I never understood anything to their website nor app, and will certainly not use Twitter any more if that becomes the only way to use it. What made Twitter great is its API and ecosystem around it.
- dom96 4y agoIn case anyone is interested I made a browser extension which helps you transition to Mastodon. What it does is it injects Mastodon posts into your Twitter.com timeline so you can slowly but surely get exposure to more and more of the Fediverse while keeping the familiar Twitter UI. It’s available here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/lgiffpmohlpjlkclpmelkkfmjnlpafne?hl=en-GB&authuser=0 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-chirper/l...
- _solr 4y agoMy site makes heavy use of the emoji font made by Twitter. They used to provide a CDN for it “https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/twemoji.min.js?12.0.0” https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/twemoji.min.js?12.0.0”. It seems to be down as well. I knew it would happen with the whole Elon Musk stuff but that still makes me very unhappy.
- littlestymaar 4y agoMost public nitter instances have had issues in recent weeks also. Its not 100% down, but sometimes you need 3-5 refresh to get a tweet.
- supermatt 4y agoUnsurprisingly, the outage hasn't affected twitters own client. Roll on May 2023. Unless twitter want to block the EU, they will have to provide the same level of access to 3rd party clients as they do their own. If the API is down for 3rd parties, but not for twitters own client, that will be considered a breach.
- Hamuko 4y agoIs Twitter actually considered a gatekeeper by the DMA?
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- supermatt 4y agoNot automatically, as they dont meet the turnover/market cap requirement - but the EC can still label them as one following market investigation.
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- EdiX 4y ago> If the API is down for 3rd parties, but not for twitters own client, that will be considered a breach. A breach of what?
- Entinel 4y agoThe EU's Digital Markets Act.
- EdiX 4y agoDoes it even apply to something like Twitter? If it applies to Twitter then surely that means it also applies to Youtube? Does that mean youtube-dl must be officially supported? I thought it only applied to digital markets (stuff like amazon, google's advertising platform, etc)
- KVFinn 4y agoI sure hope this is an accidental outage. Third party clients are low key what keeps me coming back to Twitter.
- alkonaut 4y agoSigh. How do I even use the official client in a reasonable way? I want to start over where I left off, with unread tweets left chronologically to scroll. The official client all seem to show the most recent tweets so I have to scroll down backwards in time?
- coldpie 4y agoThe official client is not designed to make Twitter reasonable to use, it is designed to show you ads.
- alkonaut 4y agoYeah. I could stand an ad or two maybe, but I really really don't want any recommended tweets or anything non-chronological. Any ideas?
- coldpie 4y agoNo, sorry, I closed my account a month or two ago. Prior to that I used Tweetbot on iOS, which it sounds like they have also nuked. I've since moved to Cohost and Discord, and I continue to post on the Something Awful forums. None of those are Twitter replacements, but I don't miss Twitter at all.
- andes314 4y agoCheck out this replacement I made: https://vent.fly.dev https://vent.fly.dev
- foogazi 4y agoI use Tweetbot for timeline sync and mainly browse my curated lists Twitter would be unusable for me without this feature
- jrochkind1 4y agoNo problems for me with a homegrown app that uses some parts of twitter API.
- ubermonkey 4y agoI only ever use Twitter via Tweetbot, which has never tried to show me something other than a chronological feed of posts from people I follow. I have absolutely no interest in a curated timeline, so I guess I'm done with Twitter if the API doesn't start working again.
- zwily 4y agoThe Twitter app just got an update that makes it easier to switch to the chronological timeline, and it appears to actually stick now. (At least it has so far). Doesn't avoid the ads though, which are still ubiquitous.
- vanilla_nut 4y agoWhat they can fix in an update, they can take away in another update. The only safe solution is competition between multiple service providers. If third-party clients are dead... looks like even more of a reason to switch to alternatives like Mastodon?
- ubermonkey 4y agoTwitter wasn't valuable enough to me BEFORE Elon bought it for me to put up with ads. It definitely isn't now.
- jader201 4y agoYeah, same here. I actually only follow a handful of active feeds, so it won’t be the end of the world either way. But one thing I’ll miss are the HN feeds, since I otherwise stay off HN. I may have to find an alternative for that, at least, since I don’t want to get (back) in the habit of visiting the HN homepage.
- billbrown 4y agoAnyone seen a poll from Musk on this matter?
- NelsonMinar 4y agoIt's been 16 hours and there's been no communication from Twitter on this. Do they not know what's going on? Not care? Have no respect for their third party partners?
- dgdosen 4y agoElon paid $44B for Twitter! He's going to squeeze every short-term dollar out of the platform and count on users sitting back and taking it.
- btdmaster 4y agoNitter[0][1] (which does not use the official API) still works. [0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
- swyx 4y agohow exactly does it get around not using the official API? it scrapes?