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Twitter Delays Shutdown of Legacy APIs By 3 Months as it Launches a Replacement (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the some-leeway dept.

Twitter said on Wednesday that it will be giving developers more time to adjust to its API platform overhaul, which has affected some apps' ability to continue operating in the same fashion. From a report: The company clarified this morning, along with news of the general availability of its Account Activity API, that it will be delaying the shutdown of some of its legacy APIs by three months' time. That is, APIs originally slated for a June 19, 2018 shutdown -- including Site Streams, User Streams, and legacy Direct Message Endpoints -- will now be deprecated on Wednesday, August 16, 2018.

12 comments

  1. Twits and Twats Live On by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Power to the twats!

  2. Why does twitter need APIs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What’s so hard about posting 140 character messges that it needs an API? I blame the reactnoders generation.

    1. Re:Why does twitter need APIs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi, I'm Tardchris! Have you bought the "I'm fat. Let's party." shirt? This is Slashdot, after all.

      - FatCashewsLoveMe

  3. Teh suxxors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Twitter sucks. I'd love to see Twitter go under if for no other reason than this: Without Twitter that garbage "journalism" site Huffington Post, and others like it, would lose their main source of news.

    1. Re:Teh suxxors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I already disabled Twitter functionality in both of my apps. I don't feel it really added much of anything and if it's going to turn into a hassle ... buh-bye.

  4. 3 months? or 2... by sanosuke001 · · Score: 1

    June 19th to August 16th is less than two months; why does TFS say three? (yeah, I didn't RTFA)

    --
    -SaNo
    1. Re:3 months? or 2... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shutting down streams? Ah ok so this is war. Instead of giving me access to data in a way that is easy on your servers I'll just phantomjs that shit from dozens of proxies.

    2. Re:3 months? or 2... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      June 19th to August 16th is less than two months; why does TFS say three? (yeah, I didn't RTFA)

      No, TFA doesn't say three months. That's just typical poor thinking ability by the retarded Slashdot "editors".

    3. Re:3 months? or 2... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, the article did say three months - they just edited the title to fix it. Check the URL: /twitter-delays-shutdown-of-legacy-apis-by-3-months-as-it-launches-a-replacement/

  5. Not using Twitter's horrible app by ThinkingThinker · · Score: 1

    Twitter, if this is to make me use your horrible app, I'm not doing it. I'll just stop using Twitter.

  6. Just so you know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The IRC api hasn't fundamentally changed in what, 30 years? There's something to be said for open protocols that aren't the sole purview of some American[tm] company.