@paul hilariously, whenever I have to try to purchase a part for a Tesla solar system that needs repair, that can only be "ordered" through a Google Form as well. 💀

And I never hear back from them ever

@paul I honestly can’t believe what’s happened to Twitter, but I’m glad mastodon (and ivory) are here

At this point they could as well not offer an official API and people who really need it would reverse engineer their way through.

@paul well same behavior as #mastodon correct me if i am wrong

@paul more mess on the way

@paul This!
Example: The piece of functionality we accidentally left out of a delivery.

Why anyone remains on Twitter is beyond me at this point.

@paul So when starts the $1 per letter per tweet?

@paul how to piss away your money. Couldn't he have cured cancer?

@paul

The prioritizing of Blue subscribers in other uers' timelines will be attractive mostly to those who expect a monetary return from their tweets: chiefly promoters of scams...

@paul IDs were originally a part of the verification process at the very beginning years ago. It isn’t being discussed more probably because that isn’t a new part of the process.

@paul
Very, very gullible or a diehard Musk follower which is basically the same thing.

LOL even TweetDeck & t.co are down!
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
https://t.co/musk

@paul Truly the best app. Man, I can't count the times I've reflexively tried opening Tweetbot these past few days, only to be reminded of the dangers of combining extreme wealth with callousness.

@paul 🫡

@paul @mark Get Ivory submitted! I’ve got some recurring revenue I’d like to give you.

@paul actually using the API

Finally some clarity we apparently broke the long standing rule of "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications”.

I guess I didn't realize long standing actually means a couple hours ago, once again I'm deeply sorry.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html

@paul thanks for all the work on it over the years. One of the few subs that felt like the least I could do. Looking forward to @ivory, just wish I knew more people on here lol.

@paul Ridiculous behaviour but sadly not surprising at this point. I feel for app developers though.

@paul I was able to use Tweetbot for a short bit, now it says it can’t authenticate me.

This is some BS.

DF has a good summation of this latest revelation.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twitter-slack-confirmation

Even without these leaks if you add up the lack of communication, only impacting the top 25-50 Twitter API clients and clients showing up as suspended in the dev. dashboard. The only conclusion at this point is that it was intentional and not any kind of bug.

For the record, still no official or even unofficial communication from anyone within Twitter.

I think the thing that bothers me the most is the lack of communications. If you are going to kill people off, own it. Don't just do it and act like nothing has happened.

Even during the darkest Twitter 1.0 days they were pretty open about what they were doing. I remember getting a call prior to the 4 quadrants token limit where they explained what was going to happen and answered questions. I wasn't happy but at least felt there was respect.

@paul good thing the security of that API was improved by ::checks notes:: enumerated verified status

@paul maybe that is why I’ve been getting so many spam calls lately…

@paul Elon tries to find new funding opportunities. 2$ is better then 0$.

@paul Now I know why I didn’t get it. Thanks.

@paul could have saved me a few minutes of refreshing if only the Fediverse would be a little more realtime 😀

@paul counting myself as actually lucky this time in that case

@paul Dang, I was only 1 minute late haha.

@paul The people have spoken

@paul @mark I am in, I’m so happy.

@paul This *could* result in an EU ban...

@paul just as this ex employee predicted

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

Elon has no scruples, and will do anything make money off users data

@paul wow, that’s a No from me dawg.

@paul Sign me up to test it out!!!

@paul I don’t know where the line to get on the TestFlight for that is, but I would like to.

@paul yes!!