Many third-party apps on Twitter were taken down on Friday, so users mightn’t access their accounts. At first glance, this failure seemed to be the cause of a bug, but given the radio silence of Twitter, doubts began to hover.
Many people in the community have speculated that it might be an issue with the API interface or that the company is limiting access to larger customers.
Normally, the company communicates with them. But the only information transmitted this weekend by the new management of Elon Musk concerned only the very recent liftoff of the Falcon Heavy rocket, the reinforcement of transparency on Twitter with the recommendation code of the platform.
In short, nothing regarding decommissioned third-party apps.
Internal messages on Twitter indicated that the shutdown of some third-party clients was a company decision rather than a bug, reported The Information over the weekend. The report says a project manager told the product team that the company had “started work on communication,” but without providing an official timeline.
From then on, frustrations began to rain down on the tweet network. Developers were even considering removing their apps from the platform or terminating them.
Some have tried to circumvent app blocking by modifying their coding, without success.
The dissatisfaction is even more palpable among users who have subscribed to paid applications.
In short, all the work done by the former administration to develop and diversify the platform from the applications seems to have been reduced to nothing given the lack of interest from the new management.
This questionable suspension of third-party customers on Twitter without any communication will not instill any trust in the community, according to former head of Twitter development platforms, Amir Shevat, on TechCrunch.
