The developers behind popular Twitter apps like Tweetbot, Tweetings, Talon and Twitteriffic have combined efforts to raise awareness surrounding the impending situation. The app developers are requesting users ask @TwitterDev to correct the situation, share their feelings using the hashtag … Read More

Upcoming API changes to Twitter will limit important functionality in third-party Twitter apps, according to a new post by a coalition of developers at Apps of a Feather. Back in December, Twitter announced plans to discontinue “streaming services” as of June 19, 2018, which as the developers point out … Read …

By Brian Barnett Marvel Studios and Disney screened the first 24 minutes of Avengers: Infinity War ahead of the film's April 27 release, and those lucky enough to see the teaser have begun posting impressions on social media. Although official reviews are embargoed for a few more weeks, the film's …

But what it didn't publicize, was that the sweeping API changes would also impose new limits that would effectively "break" the vast majority of third-party Twitter clients. Making matters worse, Twitter never made the beta version of its new API widely available to these developers, who were growing … Read More

Twitter just promised to watch breaking events closely to curb trolling and fake news, but how does it stop users from getting trouble into first place? The answer might be simple: show people the rules before they do something wrong. It's launching a study that will try publicizing its rules …

Twitter is testing a decidedly simple strategy to stop widespread bullying and abusive comments on its service— showing users its rules. CEO Jack Dorsey said Friday that Twitter was trying the tactic to “diminish abuse,” which has plagued Twitter's users for years despite the company's repeated … Read More

LuciaVon tweeted: “I love that the tweets causing New Hampshire to trend are residents wondering why in the world New Hampshire is trending.” The truth, as it turns out, is a little more straightforward. If you're a Twitter user and you live in New Hampshire, that #newhampshire hashtag in your …

Third-party Twitter clients are often handicapped by the platform by a limit of 100,000 users for new developers and are not able to implement features found in the official client. The latest restriction threatens to impact fundamental features like push notifications and automatic timeline refresh. Read More

Your third-party Twitter apps are safe for now. In a reversal from a statement made in December 2017, Twitter said it will delay its plan to pull support for Twitter apps like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings and Twitterrific. The microblogging service would stop these apps' ability to push notifications and update … …

If you use a third-party Twitter app like Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon or Tweetings, you might lose a couple of key features when Twitter replaces developer access to User and Site streams with a new Account Activity API this coming June. The folks who created the apps mentioned above have created …