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Twitter delays API change that may disable push notifications and auto-refreshing timelines on third-party clients like Tweetbot, promises 90 days change notice

but they may not be able to offer full functionality in the future once the change goes through. http://www.theverge.com/... John Sheehan / @johnsheehan : If @TwitterDev breaks TweetBot, I'm gone. #BreakingMyTwitter http://twitter.com/... @twitterrific : Twitter is making changes to its APIs that will break or limit features like live streaming in all third-party clients, including Twitterrific. Learn more http://apps-of-a-feather.com/ #BreakingMyTwitter Dan Frakes / @danfrakes : Hey @TwitterDev This isn't good for users. And in the long run, it isn't good for you: Crippling third-party clients doesn't make me use your own client/website more; it makes me use Twitter less. #BreakingMyTwitter http://apps-of-a-feather.com/ Ceejbot .Plan Not Found / @ceejbot : This might be what gets me to go Mastodon. Twitter's own clients have never, ever been a good way to experience Twitter. http://twitter.com/... Ferrett Steinmetz / @ferretthimself : My life will be an endless series of fleeing decaying social networks in search of better ones. I've done it twice before with Compuserve and LiveJournal, I'm prepped for Twitter to implode. http://twitter.com/... Andy Baio / @waxpancake : The end of Twitter's streaming APIs also means the death of my own project, http://belong.io/. http://www.theverge.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : A delay means nothing. Twitter has never cared about third-party apps after they helped make the platform so successful. https://twitter.com/... Sean Heber / @bigzaphod : I kind of doubt it. It's hard to say without even knowing if we'll get full access, partial access, have to pay for it, etc. but just from the way it works it doesn't seem like it'd be enough to really replicate the full live stream experience. Zac Hall / @apollozac : Twitter's answer to the API problem: changing the deadline to unknown https://9to5mac.com/...

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Discussion

  • @tapbots @tapbots on x
    While these changes aren't great, we aren't going anywhere and have some exciting updates in the works.
  • @twitterdev Twitter Dev on x
    Last year we announced our plan to retire Site Streams & User Streams, and replace them with the Account Activity API (currently in beta). We are delaying the scheduled June 19th deprecation date.
  • @rgriff Rob Griffiths on x
    Hey wow, this is actually good news. Sort of. “We're probably still killing them, but we're going to wait a little while until the uproar dies down, then we'll kill them. We may not even announce when, to make sure it stays quiet.” http://twitter.com/...
  • @waxpancake Andy Baio on x
    Phew, Twitter just announced they're delaying the deprecation of the streaming APIs until the Account Activity API is widely available. Thanks for listening, @TwitterDev. http://twitter.com/...
  • @jeffseibert Jeff Seibert on x
    While I deeply understand the complexities of running Twitter's dev platform, and there are no easy decisions here, it would be a grave error to effectively end Mac support by killing Tweetbot. http://twitter.com/...
  • @queer_queenie Lesbiab Queenie on x
    Pay attention to this - because if they go forward with it, it will break most third party twitter apps with push notifications no longer functioning and timelines no longer automatically refreshing on anything but official apps http://twitter.com/...
  • @backlon Dieter Bohn on x
    If I could edit tweets I would note that Twitter is delaying this API change http://twitter.com/... http://twitter.com/...
  • @backlon Dieter Bohn on x
    Story updated: Twitter has postponed the change that would break 3rd party Twitter apps — but they may not be able to offer full functionality in the future once the change goes through. http://www.theverge.com/...
  • @johnsheehan John Sheehan on x
    If @TwitterDev breaks TweetBot, I'm gone. #BreakingMyTwitter http://twitter.com/...
  • @twitterrific @twitterrific on x
    Twitter is making changes to its APIs that will break or limit features like live streaming in all third-party clients, including Twitterrific. Learn more http://apps-of-a-feather.com/ #BreakingMyTwitter
  • @danfrakes Dan Frakes on x
    Hey @TwitterDev This isn't good for users. And in the long run, it isn't good for you: Crippling third-party clients doesn't make me use your own client/website more; it makes me use Twitter less. #BreakingMyTwitter http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
  • @ceejbot Ceejbot .Plan Not Found on x
    This might be what gets me to go Mastodon. Twitter's own clients have never, ever been a good way to experience Twitter. http://twitter.com/...
  • @ferretthimself Ferrett Steinmetz on x
    My life will be an endless series of fleeing decaying social networks in search of better ones. I've done it twice before with Compuserve and LiveJournal, I'm prepped for Twitter to implode. http://twitter.com/...
  • @waxpancake Andy Baio on x
    The end of Twitter's streaming APIs also means the death of my own project, http://belong.io/. http://www.theverge.com/...
  • @tomwarren Tom Warren on x
    A delay means nothing. Twitter has never cared about third-party apps after they helped make the platform so successful. https://twitter.com/...
  • @bigzaphod Sean Heber on x
    I kind of doubt it. It's hard to say without even knowing if we'll get full access, partial access, have to pay for it, etc. but just from the way it works it doesn't seem like it'd be enough to really replicate the full live stream experience.
  • @apollozac Zac Hall on x
    Twitter's answer to the API problem: changing the deadline to unknown https://9to5mac.com/...