Last updated: January 13, 2023, 5:50 PM IST
Twitter’s third-party login apps don’t work
Users have been unable to access their Twitter accounts through these third-party apps on mobile and macOS.
The problems on Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover continue to pile up this week. People cannot log into their accounts using third-party apps such as TweetBot, Talon, and Felix for macOS, Android, and iOS versions respectively.
Many users have complained about the issue and seen an error message when they try to log into their Twitter account. The most amazing thing is that no one knows the reason for this problem and some suspect that Twitter API is causing the login error.
Twitter hasn’t provided an explanation for the issue and we don’t know if it will be fixed any time soon or if it’s a more coordinated decision by Twitter that we still don’t know much about. But judging by recent weeks on Twitter, the new developments hardly come as a surprise.
The platform is plagued by new controversies day in and day out as Musk seeks to make his mark on the company he paid a mouth-watering price for. Reports suggest that Twitter may have deliberately blocked access to these third-party apps for Twitter logins, as none of them are a source of revenue for the platform, something Musk hopes to improve in the coming years.
Twitter has also revamped its Blue plan adding new features and also expanding its reach to countries like India where it costs more than Rs 700 per month for iOS users. Musk clearly sees his buyout as a business move and he invariably wants the company to make money, which is not an unreasonable question at all.
That said, Twitter has gone through a lot of changes in a short amount of time, including the departure of senior engineers making the platform less intuitive and the new rules making things more difficult for users, especially how they use their timelines.
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