Twitter has officially banned apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific that allow users to access and post tweets outside of Twitter’s own app and web site. The ban, buried in an update to Twitter’s developer agreement on Thursday, came a week after the apps stopped working, with no public explanation from the company. The developer agreement said third-party clients that “create or attempt to...
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