Last week Twitter reduced access to third-party apps that use the popular microblogging site’s API. Users were unable to access their accounts on third-party Twitter apps such as Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Amid claims from developers that the Elon Musk-owned platform intentionally blocked their apps, Twitter has now issued a statement revealing that it has revoked access to third-party apps on purpose. In a brief tweet, the official TwitterDev account (@TwitterDev) said on Tuesday that the website is implementing its “long-standing API rules”.
Tweet Added that some apps may not work as a result of this move. However, the Twitter dev account didn’t elaborate on what its long-standing API rules were, or why the site chose to implement them now.
However, the tweet came as a confirmation of what third-party developers already suspected – apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific did not lose access to Twitter as a result of a bug, but were instead caused by the microblogging site’s deliberate use of its API. prevented from doing. An API is a software interface that allows communication between two or more programs. All Twitter Third-party clients use the Twitter API to access the Service.
Tweetbot developers had condemned the platform’s silence on the blocked access after Twitter’s confirmation. Tweetbot co-creator Paul Haddad said at Mastodon Post That he had not received any communication, either officially or unofficially, from anyone on Twitter. Tweetbot initially lost access with Twitterrific, and formerly resumed working on Sunday after the developers changed its API keys, only to be blocked again.
Haddad in a Mastodon Post Twitter’s vague confirmation also responded, “I want to publicly apologize to Twitter for breaking their long-standing API rule ,,
according to a report good Earlier this week, Twitter’s internal Slack communications noted that the site had intentionally revoked third-party access. As mentioned earlier, Twitter has not yet clarified which rules were broken by the popular third-party apps.