5/6/2023 0 Comments Twitter tweetbot![]() ![]() So with no access to the API, developers began to remove their apps for the social network. However, with the purchase of the company by Elon Musk, the previous policies of Twitter went down in history. The change was part of Twitter’s broader strategy to improve relations with developers, including third-party creators. For a while, Twitter management tried to impose more restrictions on third-party client developers, but in 2021 it changed its policy, removing a section that discouraged, but did not prohibit, app developers from “copying” the service’s core capabilities. In recent years, clients like Tweetbot and Fenix have had a loyal following thanks to their lack of ads and other features that many regular users of the social network dislike. Twitterrific, one of the more prominent apps affected by last week’s API outage, was created before Twitter even had its own iOS app, and is credited with inventing the word “tweet” as well as other features that are now commonly associated with Twitter. ![]() Twitter’s third-party clients have always been an integral part of Twitter. Which was to be expected, since Twitter no longer has a communications team, and most of the staff working on the developer platform were also cut in mass layoffs last year. Problems accessing the Twitter API started last week, and the company did not provide the developers with any meaningful explanation. ![]() The Restrictions section of the Twitter Developer Agreement has been updated to prohibit “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” The addition is the only major change in the 5,000-word deal, but it essentially undoes decades of work by developers of popular third-party clients for Twitter. Elon Musk’s Twitter has quietly updated its agreement with developers, which now states that they cannot create their own clients to use the social network. ![]()
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