Twitter’s new API encourages devs to craft powerful third-party apps and useful bots

Twitter’s new API encourages devs to craft powerful third-party apps and useful bots


Twitter‘s had a rocky relationship with third-party developers creating apps on top of the service. Over the years, it has introduced limitations for apps such as the active number of tokens and the number of actions (you know, tweets, retweets, likes, and DMs) within a time frame, making it difficult to craft things like alternative Twitter clients. But Twitter wants to put all that in the past, as it launched its new API last night. The company now wants to play fair with developers and even encourage them to make helpful bots. The news was first announced last month, but it was just…

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