An API is ‘software’ that allows applications to communicate with each other and exchange data. These interfaces avoid the need to develop a specific application to add your information, since the data between one service and others can be linked.
that’s how they work alternative clients to Twitter such as TweetBot, Twitterrific or Fenix, which integrate their own characteristics (such as synchronization or mute in the case of the first) and combine them with those already existing in the social network.
Users of these Twitter clients they have denounced not being able to establish contact between both applications due to an alleged failure in the API of the social network. Due to this authentication error, they have stopped being able to access the platform and use its resources.
In the same way, the third-party applications themselves have reported it, which claim they do not know the reasons for this failure. For example, as TweetBot has pointed out, it has contacted Twitter to obtain more details, although it has assured that it has not received a response. “We hope this is just a temporary glitch and we’ll let you know as soon as we know more”this client has communicated from his profile on the social network.
This API failure it has not affected all third party applications of the platform now owned by Elon Musk. As one of Twitterrific’s developers has pointed out, the macOS version of this app, which has a different ‘app’ identifier, “seems to still work.” The same is the case with Albatross, which continues to be operational.
