Twitter’s API restricted

Other move of Twitter related to content & access restriction: the APIs. Popular 3rd party Twitter clients (i.e.: Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Echofon…) stopped working on January 12 Many questions around this move

Popular third-party Twitter clients such as TweetbotTwitterrificEchofon, AltTextUtil and AltTxtReminder stopped working at around 11 PM ET on Thursday, January 12.

Updated Wardley map

The different actions taken on content and users that I have identified are:

Some questions about this move:

  • Will be a tokenized connection be enable?
  • Will be the API not available anymore?
  • What will be the new conditions of a tokenized API?

In any case, free lunch for these applications seems to be gone for them.

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