Nuked Hey everyone, it’s Nuked here! I’m sure you’ve noticed that Tweetbot is down again. It briefly became available during the recent Twitter outage, allowing some users to sign in and browse through tweets. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to post anything without getting an error message. Now, it seems that no one can sign in at all.
According to Tweetbot co-creator Paul Haddad, the outage appears to be intentional. He believes that the Twitter client and other third-party apps were specifically targeted. It seems that Tweetbot temporarily got around the issue by swapping out its API keys, but it put the service in a semi-working state.
As it turns out, Tweetbot likely fell back into the same issue because of its API keys. Twitter API limits new apps to low limits, and so all Tweetbot users now share a limit of 300 posts per 15 minutes. This is why some users weren’t able to post anything.
Twitter and CEO Elon Musk have yet to acknowledge the outage publicly or reach out to developers to let them know what’s going on. There has been some speculation that the outage was intentional, according to a report from The Information. For now, we’ll just have to wait and see what Twitter has to say.
