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by scraplab 1678 days ago
I'm a verified Twitter user who runs a bunch of inconsequential bots (https://twitter.com/lowflyingrocks, https://twitter.com/urnowentering) and has a small side project for discovering what your friends are liking on Twitter.

Somehow I've been blocked from accessing the V2 API. Whatever it was I filled in a while ago about my use case wasn't good enough, and there's no recourse or way to resubmit my application.

It's a shame it's so hard to mess around with APIs and services like this nowadays without a commercial reason.

(Can anyone at Twitter help?)

2 comments

Twitter treats its developers extremely poorly, probably because developing Twitter as a platform is not rewarded internally compared to copying Clubhouse or adding a Stories clone, even though the platform is the one of Twitter's unique strengths that can't be replicated by Facebook or Google.
Please consider not contributing to their network effect and not enabling their abusive behavior towards both developers and users with your content.