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	<title>Comments on: Twitter&#8217;s Suicide Plan: Blocking Everything, Again</title>
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		<title>By: Roy Schestowitz</title>
		<link>https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2013/06/21/twitter-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-115184</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roy Schestowitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess they didn&#039;t think this through and yes, WordPress is affected also. To quote what I wrote to a client:

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Hi,

I am familiar with this problem. It is affecting many Web sites right now (maybe a million or more). Twitter changed its APIs very recently, essentially &#039;breaking&#039; a lot of software that connects to Twitter for data updates. Several sites of mine are affected by this and desktop applications too, so rest assured it&#039;s a problem shared by many.

I will look into software updates that may work around the changes or use the new API. If no software updates are available yet, we may have to consider other software which syndicates from Twitter (if any exists). This is in essence a third-party issue, caused due to Twitter&#039;s decision to cut off access to many developers and their applications, eliminating RSS in the process, too.

I will investigate this further and let you know my suggestions.

Hi,

I have done some further research on this. I can confirm that Twitter is blocking many third-party tools which extract data from one&#039;s Twitter account and display it in one&#039;s site. Tools which are included or added to Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress etc. are rendered broken until or unless an update is issued. In the mean time, Twitter is trying to promote its own widget. You can see if and configure it at

https://twitter.com/settings/widgets

while you are logged in as yourself. If you like this widget layout (there is a preview therein), we can work on integrating it with your site.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess they didn&#8217;t think this through and yes, WordPress is affected also. To quote what I wrote to a client:</p>
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Hi,</p>
<p>I am familiar with this problem. It is affecting many Web sites right now (maybe a million or more). Twitter changed its APIs very recently, essentially &#8216;breaking&#8217; a lot of software that connects to Twitter for data updates. Several sites of mine are affected by this and desktop applications too, so rest assured it&#8217;s a problem shared by many.</p>
<p>I will look into software updates that may work around the changes or use the new API. If no software updates are available yet, we may have to consider other software which syndicates from Twitter (if any exists). This is in essence a third-party issue, caused due to Twitter&#8217;s decision to cut off access to many developers and their applications, eliminating RSS in the process, too.</p>
<p>I will investigate this further and let you know my suggestions.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I have done some further research on this. I can confirm that Twitter is blocking many third-party tools which extract data from one&#8217;s Twitter account and display it in one&#8217;s site. Tools which are included or added to Joomla, Drupal, WordPress etc. are rendered broken until or unless an update is issued. In the mean time, Twitter is trying to promote its own widget. You can see if and configure it at</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/settings/widgets" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/settings/widgets</a></p>
<p>while you are logged in as yourself. If you like this widget layout (there is a preview therein), we can work on integrating it with your site.
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		<title>By: Michael Amadio</title>
		<link>https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2013/06/21/twitter-suicide/comment-page-1/#comment-115162</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Amadio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Schestowitz
Yep, a major pain. Twitter&#039;s API change broke lots of plugins for lots of web software including WordPress. I can&#039;t make sense of such a decision.
Cheers]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Schestowitz<br />
Yep, a major pain. Twitter&#8217;s API change broke lots of plugins for lots of web software including WordPress. I can&#8217;t make sense of such a decision.<br />
Cheers</p>
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