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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 16:30:55 EST Michael Vogel
   !Friendica Admins As you might have heard, there are issues with the Twitter API. Several favourite clients stopped working, while others (still) do. By now there hadn't been any word if there is some massive Problem or if this was some deliberate action.
   
   Whatever is causing these issues, at least my connection still works. How about yours? Is the Twitter connector on your systems still running?
   1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 12:54:09 EST Bob Jonkman

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      Twidere has stopped working for Twitter accounts. My Mastodon account still works nicely. I thought maybe the Twidere API keys for the developer had been revoked, or that something had gone wrong with my phone (It's a vanilla Samsung with Android 12, but I've refused to install any of the Samsung or Google apps). I tried to re-authenticate my Twitter account with "Basic" (userID and PW; other options are OAuth, OAuth2, XAuth), but even "Basic" didn't work.
      
      My Slim Social for Twitter app continues to work, tho. But Slim Social doesn't seem like it's an app, but just a browser that only goes to twitter.com.
      
      I think this may be the event that makes me abandon Twitter altogether. I had reduced my Twitter activity since the Musk takeover, but hadn't entirely given up on it. Fortunately, I don't have any investment in anything I've posted there. I've always put #ImportantStuff on my blog or other self-hosted services.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 13:59:07 EST lnxw48a1

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         @bobjonkman I've heard that #Twitter revoked access for most 3rd party clients, but I don't use them, so I cannot confirm.
      2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 15:19:28 EST lnxw48a1

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         @bobjonkman @bobjonkman One positive is that some #Twitter clients are now advertising #Mastodon clients. I wish they'd also look at making clients for #GNUsocial, #Misskey, #PixelFed and so on, as not everyone supports the Mastodon API.
         1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 16:08:16 EST Bob Jonkman

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            I seem to recall there's a standard API that should be common to all the #StatusNet derivitave servers. I'm pretty sure that in its infancy Mastodon conformed to that API. But Mastodon's API expanded beyond that, and I suspect some of the common API was removed, probably around the time #OStatus was dropped from Mastodon too.
            
            But that's sheer speculation on my part.
            
            Time to upgrade my server, so I can upgrade PHP, so I can upgrade this GNUsocial instance...
         2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 21:57:48 EST lnxw48a1

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            https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/14/information-twitter-slack-confirmation
            
            Apparently intentional.
   2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 10:58:02 EST Michael Vogel

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      As you might have heard, Twitter now has changed their rules also officially. You mustn't create an app that does the same as their own app. This possibly could mean that we are safe. But still I don't really have got motivation to improve something at this bridge anymore.