All API keys for TweetBot are disabled by Twitter, per developer

Re:All API keys for TweetBot are disabled by Twitter, per de... by slg on Monday January 16, 2023 @12:54AM (#34397303)

There is an implied social contract that comes along with even free services that a company won't make a change like this effective immediately and won't make a change like this with zero communication. Part of Musk's approach to leading Twitter is simply ignoring these type of social and in some cases even legal obligations to others.

If this incident truly represents Twitter's change in approach to third-party clients, that change in policy is being executed in the most petty and malicious way it could be done.

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Re:All API keys for TweetBot are disabled by Twitter, per de... by catach on Monday January 16, 2023 @02:02AM (#34397741)

> executed in the most petty and malicious way it could be done.

This is not to excuse Twitter's actual behavior, which is clearly shitty. But: More petty and malicious would be to shut off access, then contact devs and promise that access would be restored if they just make these tiny changes to their app, and also sign this NDA forbidding discussion of the process. Then string along for a week or a month demanding just one more tiny change after change.

Then ghost.

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