Despite the chaos at Twitter this year, I’m a little surprised that after paying Twitter for API access for the last couple months my app was still suspended. Just can’t trust big ad-based platforms.

@manton They’ve really dropped all pretense of professionalism, haven’t they? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised any more but some people are determined to keep finding new lows. Best not to remain connected to them.

@manton Oh, and to avoid being misunderstood, I mean disconnecting from Twitter management. There are many decent people still using the platform, and I am not disparaging any of them. Everyone has to make their own call about staying or going.

@fgtech Yep, I understood what you meant. I did reach out to Twitter because I don't love paying for something that doesn't work, but I don't expect a response. It's officially over.

@manton Oof. So you had to pay in advance and then they cut you off? I hope you get your money back, then. Sounds like a scam to me.

@fgtech Yeah, probably the API people didn't realize it was a paid account? Who knows.

@manton That’s infuriating!

@manton they might reply with “💩”… seen that a few times. Shame they cut it off though, even though it’s been paid for.

@manton probably citing the “no competing products” clause. 🙃

@manton I'm just imagining you trying to get your money back for the amount that you paid for.

@manton That’s awful. You might be able to do a chargeback on the Twitter credit card transaction. I am sorry to see this happen after you did so much to provide a clean shutdown process for Twitter cross-posting.

@manton clearly you are not HARDCORE!

@manton fool me once...etc. etc. Sorry that you lost money, but I am not surprised. Dispute the charge if you paid via credit card?

@johnbrayton @pratik To be honest chargebacks are such a mess that I don't usually wish them on even my worst enemies. 🙂 I'll see what Twitter says. Because of the timing, I effectively got about 90% of what I paid for.

@manton Good to hear that. I hope you don't have to deal with Twitter anymore. That place, although much loved earlier, is now gone.

@manton does it show up as suspended? I think they screwed something up. All our (suspended) apps disappeared and then at least one of them showed up again.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/cannot-see-my-projects-and-apps-or-create-new-ones/195950

@manton Just can’t trust big ad-based platforms or just can’t trust Musk? I’m leaning more towards the latter

@paul It shows up as suspended for violating "rules and policies". I also got a mass email today about deprecating the "legacy access tiers", so does seem likely they messed up and suspended too many accounts. The clown car is way off the road now.

@voxpelli I don't pin as much blame on Elon as some people, because Twitter has been developer-hostile long before he took over. He just made everything worse. See also: Reddit. It is hard to mix ads and third-party developers without some kind of conflict.

@manton True that, nowadays seems to also be to try and keep data away from AI:s to train upon and such

@paul And... now my Twitter app has been reinstated. 🤷

@manton @paul

So in this case maybe the threat isn't about being ad supported but more don't trust badly run companies without enough staff?

@manton I guess you put the finger on the sore spot there.

(Is that an English saying anyway?)

@manton I'm not proposing that you continue paying, but approx. how much $$ does Microblog spend to support cross-posting at Twitter with the new rules?

@manton 🤔

@iChris $100/month. I never felt good about paying indefinitely which is why we set July as the cutoff.

@manton @paul Elmo is lurking here

@manton I wonder if 2023 will turn out to be the end of third-party clients on mobile, and the end of vc funded social networks?