Some third-party Twitter purchasers equivalent to Twitterific and Tweetbot seem like experiencing an outage, although the trigger is presently unclear. Builders haven’t obtained any communication from the corporate about whether or not the difficulty is attributable to a bug or one thing else, in response to a Mastodon post from Paul Haddad, one in all Tweetbot’s creators.
There’s been speculation from Twitter users and some news outlets that it is a transfer from Twitter to close down third-party purchasers altogether. Nevertheless, the outage might not be common. Some apps, like Fenix 2 or Albatross, seem like working for me and some others, although I’ve seen different customers report issues with Fenix. The primary-party Twitter app can also be nonetheless useful.
Third-party apps depend on Twitter’s API to get knowledge from the service, some extent that’s been contentious in the past as the corporate went by way of a interval the place it uncared for instruments for outdoor builders. That gave the impression to be turning round earlier than Elon Musk purchased the corporate, although the place he stands on various Twitter apps isn’t clear; he doesn’t seem to have mentioned a lot optimistic or detrimental about them.
It’s exhausting to inform whether or not the third-party shopper outage is because of the API. Trying sure calls from my particular person Twitter developer account appeared to work, whereas Twitter’s own API explorer tool is presently damaged. Lots of the error messages appear by customers discuss with points with authentication.
At time of writing, there haven’t been any tweets in regards to the obvious outage, both from the official Twitter account, the Twitter Support account, or Elon Musk. The corporate doesn’t have a communications division that we may ask in regards to the challenge straight, so we’ll maintain a watch out for any developments.