
The latest technical problems with Twitter have cropped up a little over four months after Musk, the multibillionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, closed a debt-heavy $44 billion deal to acquire the company. That came after the company - without warning - in January had made a change that disabled Twitter access for multiple third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Musk had claimed that the “free API is being abused right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators.” Twitter said it would charge developers a monthly API access fee starting at $100/month for basic access. 9 it would begin charging developers a monthly fee to let their apps access its API (application programming interface). Last month, Twitter announced that as of Feb. Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.” The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason.

After Twitter fixed the glitch, company owner Elon Musk tweeted that, “A small API change had massive ramifications.
