Twitter has removed support for a number of third-party applications and outdated developer tools.<\/p>\n
The company said in a blog post<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it chose to stop supporting a number of third-party applications to focus on improving Twitter for iOS, Android, and its web platform.<\/p>\n Third-party applications such as Tweetbot has\u00a0already removed<\/strong><\/a> certain functionality to mitigate the effect of these changes, crippling many of its features.<\/p>\n The company also dropped support for Twitter on Apple Watch and Twitter for Mac, and has replaced its Twitter for Windows App with its new web application.<\/p>\n “We feel the best Twitter experience we can provide today is through our owned and operated Twitter for iOS and Android apps, as well as desktop and mobile twitter.com,” said Twitter.<\/p>\n These changes form part of Twitter’s recent push to improve its platform, which includes mitigating the effect of troll-like behaviour.<\/p>\n Twitter has removed support for a number of third-party applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[53193,53147,405],"class_list":["post-272263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-third-party-apps","tag-tweetbot","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272279,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272263\/revisions\/272279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Twitter disabling API features crippling third-party apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"