If you adulation your third-party Twitter apps, you alone accept a few added months with them afore Twitter pulls the bung on them all.
Back in April, we told you about Twitter’s plan to abolish admission to the “streaming services” allocation of its API. This agency that third-party apps that appearance you your Twitter augment in absolute time – like Plume, Talon, and every added app on this annual – will no best be able to accommodate that service.
With no adeptness for third-party apps to carbon the Twitter experience, it is awful acceptable that the apps would artlessly shut down, abrogation the official Twitter app as your alone option.
Twitter’s aboriginal date for the change of its API was June 19, 2018. However, the date was pushed aback not continued afterwards Twitter appear the change. Now we apperceive the new date, via Android Central – August 16, 2018. So Twitter gave us two accomplished added months. Thanks, Twitter.
In a appearance of what some would accede “compromise,” Twitter will acquiesce third-party apps to use the alive casework API for a fee. The use of the API would be bound to 250 users. The annual allegation for admission would work out to about $10 per ages per user, which would beggarly every distinct user of a third-party app would accept to pay $10 a ages aloof for the app developers to breach even. And the app would alone be accustomed to accept a max of 250 users.
See Also: hack imoWould you pay $10 per ages aloof to admission Twitter on your phone back you could aloof use the official app for free? Probably not.
It is accessible that Twitter could change this action afore August 16, but it’s bright that the aggregation wants to do abroad with third-party apps as abundant as it possibly can. While annihilation could appear during the abutting three months afore it pulls the plug, you ability appetite to alpha accepting acclimated to the official Twitter app.
Or, you know, stop application Twitter.
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- Twitter will abolish admission to its alive casework API starting on August 16, 2018.
- This change will acceptable force all third-party Twitter apps to shut down.
- There is still a adventitious that third-party Twitter apps could survive, but it looks bleak.
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