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1. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Jun-2023 22:00:16 UTC Stephen Sekula
   I finally had a chance to figure out why my social bridging software was no longer able to talk to Twitter. Indeed, it's because under Twitter's new leadership, python-twitter has been deemed as violating something in their terms of service. It says I can submit a ticket, but they make it impossible to figure out how to do that (the service portal is a loop). So I am deciding to no longer support Twitter and will focus entirely on federated social media.
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   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:21:12 UTC Bob Jonkman

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     Several other authors of software that accesses the Twitter API have come to that conclusion as well. When #Twidere, my phone app to access Twitter stopped accessing Twitter back in January I pretty much abandoned Twitter. I still check Twitter with its WebUI, less than once a week, but I no longer post or engage there.
     
     But Twitter still gets used by some organizations I do work for, so I do post from their accounts. I wonder how long it will be before they abandon Twitter too.