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Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing their network, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

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FunHouse Radio

@feditips we use one and it seems to be working.

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strongempatheticawarenessyoga

@feditips

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@feditips is there a good mastodon app that can synchronise your positioning the time line between an iPad and iPhone?

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my display name

@feditips at least web clients still appear to be working...?

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:bc: Stone :bc:

@feditips incoming souls

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Mesa Keith

@feditips I was just looking for a desktop/web client that supports at least Twitter and Mastodon. Never mind I guess.

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Sebastien 🇧🇪

@feditips The internet giveth and then Elon taketh away. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Aléryon Science

@feditips The Information reports that the cutoff is not an outage and is indeed intentional

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Aral Balkan

@feditips And pre-Musk Twitter had already rate limited the number of people that could use a third-party client app.

They initially allowed third-party clients in their growth stage. Then they saw Tweetdeck could be a threat by forking folks off into its own network. Bought it and changed the rules a couple of times to avoid another potential Tweetdeck down the line. Looks like Space Karen just locked the gate completely. (An API key is a key to a gate you don’t own.)

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Godzilla_KOM

@feditips Twitter is dead.

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NicholasR

@feditips I am sure we will see a lot of development of new #Mastodon apps 😀

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Jon_S

@feditips Hootsuite still seems to be working.

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Dan Wright

@feditips Let’s get more accounts over here. Thoroughly enjoying my time here.

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