Recently, TweetDeck which is a Twitter created tool that many companies relied upon stopped working properly. Then a new version was rolled out along with the news that it would be only for Twitter Blue subscribers. Which of course didn’t go over very well. Today here’s another plot twist. The old version of TweetDeck is back. This was spotted by The Verge:
Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along with the free API access that made third party Twitter clients possible. TweetDeck was disabled last week when Twitter abruptly threw up a rate-limiting paywall and killed the legacy APIs that allowed the old version of the feature to function, while third-party apps were banned in January.
An update this morning from Harpy developer Roberto Doering says they switched to the “old v1 API” to get it working again, but they also noted “this doesn’t mean that harpy will be maintained again, seeing as Twitter will most likely shut down access to their legacy api (again) soon and third party apps are still against their TOS.”
To revert to the old version, go into your TweetDeck Account settings, select TweetDeck version, and switch back.
I followed the above instructions to switch my TweetDeck version back with no issues. But the real question is how long will this last as it is likely that Elon Musk will do something else to force people to pay him $8 a month to use TweetDeck. There’s no official announcement on this from what I can see. So whatever is going on, enjoy TweetDeck for as long as you can because it’s not likely to last.
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The Old Version Of TweetDeck Is Back… But For How Long?
Recently, TweetDeck which is a Twitter created tool that many companies relied upon stopped working properly. Then a new version was rolled out along with the news that it would be only for Twitter Blue subscribers. Which of course didn’t go over very well. Today here’s another plot twist. The old version of TweetDeck is back. This was spotted by The Verge:
Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along with the free API access that made third party Twitter clients possible. TweetDeck was disabled last week when Twitter abruptly threw up a rate-limiting paywall and killed the legacy APIs that allowed the old version of the feature to function, while third-party apps were banned in January.
An update this morning from Harpy developer Roberto Doering says they switched to the “old v1 API” to get it working again, but they also noted “this doesn’t mean that harpy will be maintained again, seeing as Twitter will most likely shut down access to their legacy api (again) soon and third party apps are still against their TOS.”
To revert to the old version, go into your TweetDeck Account settings, select TweetDeck version, and switch back.
I followed the above instructions to switch my TweetDeck version back with no issues. But the real question is how long will this last as it is likely that Elon Musk will do something else to force people to pay him $8 a month to use TweetDeck. There’s no official announcement on this from what I can see. So whatever is going on, enjoy TweetDeck for as long as you can because it’s not likely to last.
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