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It'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. Th
by samwillis 4y ago
It'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...