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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

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


      MODDOWN! ; creimer spam post again!

      creimer wants you to click on his youtube channel, then click on his stupid amazon affiliate link spam on Youtube. There is nothing of value on creimer youtube channel. Only creimer click-bot goes there.

      The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.

      For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.

      Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!

      Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."

      For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

      IMPORTANT UPDATE:
      Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

      Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

      To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

      The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

      Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

      I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
      http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...

      Our artists were inspired by the low carb diet that Christopher follows scrupulously for the small lunch box and by the picture linked below for the rest. I am sure that you will notice the similarities such as the bump on the side of his chest and more:
      https://ibb.co/gVad65

      Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
      http://ibb.co/mRVSaG

      But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

      Thank You dear users,
      ---
      Nancy Guerrero
      Director
      Special Education
      Santa Clara County Office of Education

      Exactly Nancy,

      It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

      I mean, those crooks tell Chris that h

  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.