The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long?
Overnight, users accurate thru Twitter began reporting that the older, and hundreds better, version of TweetDeck has returned along with the free API access that made third birthday party Twitter purchasers probably. TweetDeck became once disabled final week when Twitter at the moment threw up a charge-limiting paywall and killed the legacy APIs that allowed the outdated long-established version of the feature to operate, while third-birthday party apps were banned in January.
An replace this morning from Harpy developer Roberto Doering says they switched to the “outdated school v1 API” to procure it working again, nonetheless they moreover successfully-known “this doesn’t mean that harpy will be maintained again, seeing as Twitter will in all likelihood shut down access to their legacy api (again) quickly and third birthday party apps are tranquil in opposition to their TOS.”
A scan of Twitter’s reliable accounts, as successfully as those is Elon Musk and unusual CEO Linda Yaccarino didn’t advise someone asserting anything in regards to the outdated long-established TweetDeck’s return — the Twitter Enhance yarn’s most modern tweet is the one from several days within the past asserting the commence of the unusual TweetDeck.
Afterwards, Twitter foisted its “unusual, improved” TweetDeck, which has been in preview for over two years, on the enviornment. It announced by assignment of the Twitter support yarn that the feature would depart unhurried the Twitter Verified paywall for Twitter Blue subscribers and those the company deems great of a free blue take a look at.
Twitter claimed its resolution to limit the need of tweets its users might possibly well possibly explore in a day became once a needed, and momentary, resolution precipitated by companies scraping its procedure to feed AI gadgets.
The company is moreover facing its most gallant copycat with the commence of Instagram’s Threads app, which Meta rushed out the door earlier than agenda this week in a advise to steal income of Twitter at its most susceptible and hasty registered over 70 million accounts in now not up to two days. Nonetheless, TweetDeck might possibly well possibly moreover be a feature that Threads might possibly well possibly moreover now not replica, as Instagram boss Adam Mosseri told Alex Heath that “Politics and laborious recordsdata are inevitably going to advise up on Threads – they’ve on Instagram as successfully to a pair of extent – nonetheless we’re now not going to comprise anything to encourage those verticals.”
Update July 8th, 2023, 12:50PM ET: Updated to command that some third birthday party apps might possibly well possibly moreover moreover now be working again.
