Elon Musk retreating? Twitter will reverse some of its most absurd changes

Some Third Party Twitter Clients they are back in stock after they stopped working due to changes that Elon Musk was forced to implement in the API, although it is not clear how long they will continue to be effective. According to some developers, the “old API v1” is working again; something that allows you to inherit older versions of platforms like TweetDeck.

I don’t understand, we repeat is this a temporary change to twitter or a cancellation promoted by Elon Musk and Linda Iaccarino, who is currently the head of the social network. In fact, while apps like Harpy – another of the many third-party Twitter clients – are becoming available again, the developers warn that this could change in the next few hours. Please note that this does not mean that Harpy will be back as Twitter is likely to close access to its deprecated API soon (again) and third party apps are still not compliant with their TOS, Roberto Dering, developer of the app, confirmed.

Twitter has not yet issued a decision on this issue. In fact, the latest news from the social network about third-party clients concerns a new version of TweetDeck, which does not rely on the original API. In any case, and at least temporarily, users can return to the previous version through the settings menu.

Twitter backs out of some measures

Since it is not known if the old version of the API will remain active, it seems that Twitter is returning to Jump back to some of the — and absurd — measures that Elon Musk introduced when he acquired Twitter.

For example, the tycoon confirmed that the For You feed will only show tweets from verified users or people you follow. Today, Messages keep appearing from accounts not following Twitter Blue. We’ll likely see other changes as well, as well as Threads, Instagram’s new social network that continues to gain popularity. At the moment, in just a few days since the launch, the application has already gained 100 million users.

Elon Musk, yes, also removes features that have been on Twitter for a long time, like circles; a feature that mimics Best Friends of Instagram and allows you to post tweets that only select people can see. The executive said he would be removing features to empower communities and group direct messages.