Twitter may have deliberately cut off third-party clients like Tweetbot

Twitter appears to have deliberately cut off third-party clients from accessing its API. Since Thursday evening, many of the most popular apps you can use to scroll Twitter without going through the company’s own software, including Tweetbot and Twitterrific, have not worked, with no official communication from Twitter. On Sunday, The Information*shared messages from Twitter’s internal Slack channels that suggest the company is aware of the outage and likely the cause of it as well.