At this point, Mastodon is looking like a viable alternative. Been posting via the twitter site as responses to many of my followers tweets to cross post and follow on mastodon. And yes, twitter apparently shut down the 3rd party app API on Thursday 2023-01-12 without announcement or comment. They have also not responded to queries from much of the tech media outlets and Elon Musk has been silent on this point. He comments about everything else but has made absolutely no comment or responses on any directed tweets on this subject sent his way.
Now, three possibilities present themselves on this: 1. Twitter shut down the API in order to perform system upgrades 2. Something was broken and they are working on it 3. A cuckoo’s egg was triggered on the part of a former disgruntled employee which shut down the API Now, a 4th possibility presents itself as twitter shutting down the API in order to force people to use officially supported clients. If this last is the case, then no matter how much Elon touts his platform as free speech, it won’t be because many of us can’t, or won’t, use the official clients for whatever reason. Now, I have maintained a profile on mastodon since almost day one and because of this event, I am encouraging anyone on twitter that sees my posts to trasition over to there as a backup until twitter gets it’s act together. Now, I suspect that Elon Musk will probably get a rather rude education on why it isn’t a good idea to mess with people on the platform. -Eric > On Jan 14, 2023, at 3:23 PM, Brandon Olivares <thepianist2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks, I appreciate the information everyone. It does seem very deliberate > on Twitter’s part and if they do end up disabling all third party apps like > this permanently, it might be what pushes me over the edge to just stop using > Twitter. I’ve been thinking about it for a while anyway. > >> On Jan 14, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Greg Wocher <gtwoc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> THe issue is that quite a few third party twitter clients are experiencing >> this right now. Its not just night owl. >> >> Greg Wocher >> >> >>> On Jan 14, 2023, at 10:01 AM, Brandon Olivares <thepianist2...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> For the last two days, any time I open NightOwl, it asks me to >>> reauthenticate Twitter. 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