Twitter Presumably Shuts Down Third-Party Apps

Daring Fireball (and many others) are reporting that Twitter presumably revoked API access for many popular third-party Twitter clients.

Twitter’s website and official apps are notorious for their excessive cruft of irrelevant advertisements, useless recommended tweets and attention-grabbing best-of lists. Until now, third-party clients have been the only way to get around that mess.

I never used third-party apps. I didn’t value Twitter enough to justify paying for an additional app. I made Twitter bearable by strictly only reading the chronological timeline of people I follow and by using a custom stylesheet to rid the website of its cruft.

That still works, but Musk and his team have been acting desperately without a plan. The remaining team will likely make so many changes to the site that it will be hard to keep up and adapt the stylesheet going forward. From here, it’s going to be downhill for a while.