Last month, Twitter’s former head of developer platforms, Amir Shevat, wrote a TechCrunch article about how the new management broke the trust of developers. These kinds of moves have undone the social network’s work over the last few years to earn back developers’ trust.
Developers have been cautious about their Twitter development plan given that the company hasn’t explicitly communicated its plans about platform support. Some other programs are in the defunct state even if the company has not announced official shutdowns. Since Musk took over Twitter last year, the company has shuttered several developer-related projects, including Twitter Toolbox for app discovery. Such is the unending stress of being controlled by a gatekeeper. Tapbots are lucky to be making Ivory, and Iconfactory are lucky they have other apps. We have proof now that suspending Tweetbot, Twitterrific, and 23 other clients was intentional. Villa also released a beta version of his Mastodon client Wolly on Apple’s test platform TestFlight. He said that currently the team is focused on making the onboarding experience better, then fixing the bugs and working toward an App Store release. Haddad told TechCrunch over an email that Tweetbot is concentrating on launching its Mastodon client Ivory - which is currently in a closed beta - at an accelerated pace. Some developers have already shown intent of concentrating on other projects. That would also mean that their annual income would go down and they would have to build new products while making no money.
#ECHOFON VS TWITTER PRO#
Ī bunch of these developers were concerned about handling refunds for folks who have subscribed to the pro or premium versions of their apps if Twitter banned third-party clients. Looks like those popular apps were suspended for some reason. Twitter backend doesn't seem to be broken. Also created a demo client to test the API. Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted at 9:06 am about changes to the bookmark button placement, image cropping, and " other minor bug fixes next week.Just tested a bunch of third-party Twitter apps for both iOS and Android: many seem to work. The company had yet to comment on the API outage or related third-party client issues as of 11 am. We could not reach Twitter for comment, as its public relations department reportedly no longer exists. Heavy layoffs at the social media network have led many tech industry watchers to anticipate operational failures at the company as workers with knowledge of existing systems depart without replacement. Twitter outright told developers to stop making client apps in early 2011, changed its API to severely restrict them in mid-2012, and then removed auto-refresh and push notifications in 2018. Twitter's uneven history with third-party clients and the company's recent history of making unannounced changes with seemingly unexpected consequences has spurred discussion that this could be more of a sudden policy shift than an API glitch.
#ECHOFON VS TWITTER FOR ANDROID#
Third-party client Fenix for Android was listed as "suspended," according to developer Matteo Villa, but its iOS version was still functional. TweetDeck, an alternative client owned by Twitter, appeared functional Friday morning.
Ars staffers successfully refreshed data tools that pull in Twitter data, and we heard from a user of the Tweeten client that it is still functioning. Not all third-party clients appear to be broken at the moment. OUJtusaW2A- Matteo Villa January 13, 2023 Probably an automated action, but I doubt very much I'll heard from them again and be able to resolve the issue. Advertisementįenix for Android suspended, no communication whatsoever from Twitter. A post on Twitter's developers forum shows numerous Twitter-based app developers noting that their apps have been listed as "suspended" or showing invalid authentication credentials. Haddad told TechCrunch that the connection issues started at 10:30 pm on Thursday and noted that all API requests from his app were failing. The account for Echofon posted shortly after 8:30 am Friday that it was working to resolve its issues and that "Twitter has not yet replied." " Tweets from the official accounts of the Tweetbot and Twitteriffic clients on Thursday night confirmed their communication issues. Paul Haddad, a co-creator of Tweetbot, posted on Mastodon at 11:10 pm ET Thursday in reply to a post from tech journalist Casey Newton that multiple third-party clients were failing, with "no communication as to if a bug or. Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many people since late Thursday night, and the social network has seemingly not notified the apps' developers as to why. Nathan Coppen/Getty Images reader comments 211 with
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