![]() Developers later discovered that the company has banned API access for specific clients such as Tweetbot and Fenix, as other less popular apps continues to work. The Information heard from sources that access to third-party Twitter apps was intentionally suspended. The Twitterrific app for iPhone and iPad was already banned from using the Twitter API a few days ago.Įarlier this week, Twitter vaguely said that it is now “enforcing its long-standing API rules.” But in reality, developers are in the dark since Twitter doesn’t provide any details as to why these apps are being banned from using its API. This widespread outage is occurring across many third-party Twitter clients for iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows. On January 12, many Twitter users noticed that third-party clients were throwing back error messages related to the Twitter API. While responding to some Twitterrific users, the developers also said that Twitter is “actively hostile” towards them. “As of this afternoon, Twitterrific for Mac has been suspended from Twitter without explanation,” the developer said in a tweet. Not surprisingly, the social network didn’t provide any explanation as to why the app was banned from using the API. Twitter has now banned Twiterrific from using its APIĪs reported by Twitterrific’s own developers, the Mac version of the app lost access to Twitter’s API on Thursday afternoon. You can read more details about this on 9to5Google. Update: Twitter has just confirmed that it will no longer allow developers to use the Twitter API to create third-party apps for the platform. Unfortunately, it seems that Twitter prefers to keep banning third-party apps from its platform for no reason, as now the popular Twitterrific for Mac has also been suspended from Twitter’s official API. This has caused apps like Tweetbot, Fenix and many others to stop working out of the blue. Twitter has been blocking popular third-party clients from accessing the social network since last week.
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