Twitter restricts access to third-party clients
Twitter has been going under a lot of changes and these include some third-party client situations as well. Here are all the details.
The third-party app is an ongoing situation over Twitter. The platform has quietly updated its developer agreement to make it clear that third-party app developers are no longer permitted to create their own clients.
Twitter restricts access to third-party clients
A new clause prohibiting "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications" was added to the "restrictions" section of Twitter's developer agreement on Thursday. The agreement's only significant addition is the addition.
Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) January 17, 2023
In recent days, the makers of numerous popular Twitter clients had suspected that the change would occur: that under Elon Musk's leadership, third-party Twitter services are no longer permitted. Now things have become clear. The strategy appears to have come to an end, as no one at Twitter has informed the developers of the apps that have been disabled of the new policy. “The lack of communication is a little insulting,” Matteo Villa, the developer of Fenix, tells Engadget. "It's not totally unexpected."