On Tuesday afternoon, Twitter confirmed why users are unable to log into Twitter using third-party apps. As per a Tweet by @TwitterDevthe platform is now enforcing “long-standing API rules” which prompted Twitter to stop interfacing these third-party apps with the API.
What are the rules
—Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) January 17, 2023
Third-party apps with access to the Twitter API went offline for the first time last Thursday. The limit spoke to Paul Haddad, co-creator of Tweetbot, who said he has yet to hear back from Twitter about the exact rules that would be violated.
We have yet to hear anything from anyone on Twitter on any level […] If there’s some long-standing rule that we’ve unknowingly broken in the last 10+ years, we’d like to know what it is so that, if possible, we can abide by it.” – Paolo Haddad
Not all third-party apps are offline, so there’s no clear reason why some apps went offline while others still work.
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has been at the helm of the drastic changes that have occurred at Twitter’s headquarters in recent months. Since then, Twitter has had massive layoffs, Twitter Blue has been relaunched, twice, and Musk’s own poll voted that he should step down as Twitter CEO.
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