20 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –
Twitter has announced that it will prohibit third-party applications in the latest update of its developer policies, a regulation that establishes the uses of your application programming interface (API).
Several clients of the platform owned by Elon Musk reported a few days ago that they did not receive a response from Twitter to offer their services due to an alleged bug in this ‘software’, which allows applications to communicate with each other.
Among some of those affected who reported this problem were TweetBot, Twitterrific or Fenix, that integrate their own characteristics and combine them with those already existing in the social network.
The company confirmed this Tuesday through its Twitter Dev profile that the platform was “enforcing its long-standing API rules”, which could result in some of those external applications not working.
At the time, Twitter did not identify what type of rules it was referring to, something that clients like TweetBot, that he was open to complying with these rules as long as Twitter specified what they were.
The platform has updated now its Developer Agreement page, in which it establishes the actions that developers must refrain from around the use of the API and its modifications.
The section that highlights this aspect is the one that refers to ‘restrictions on the use of licensed materials’, with section A, ‘Reverse engineering and other restrictions’. In it, Twitter indicates that the developers will not perform or attempt to or allow others to reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or translate the Twitter API.
This agreement also states that developers may not “attempt to obtain the source code, trade secrets, or underlying know-how of any Twitter API” and that they will not be permitted to “modify, discontinue or disable features or Twitter API functionality.”
In relation to third-party applications, the platform insists that this new agreement does not allow “using or accessing the licensed materials to create or attempt to create a service or product that is substitute or similar to Twitter applications.”
Twitterrific has already announced on his blog which has discontinued its platform. They have also announced the closure of their services Heelthrough a message on Twitter, and tweetbotin a statement sent to TechCrunch.
“We’re sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise stems from an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter, a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor with which we want to continue working”, has pointed out the company that develops it, The Icon Factory.
With this, he has advanced that Twitterrific is no longer available for iOS and macOS and that iOS subscriptions will be automatically canceled by Apple’s virtual store, App Store.
