Whether you’re new to the Fediverse or not, now would be a very good time to find all your mutuals from Twitter over on Mastodon. It may be a good idea to hold off on using a paid service for now until it’s clear whether any of these apps will continue to operate after the API changes go into effect.

Note that there are a handful of subscription-based tweet deletion services. If you want to wipe your tweet history, check out TweetDelete, TwitWipe, TweetDeleter, or another similar service. But if you haven’t already, your window for easily doing so is rapidly closing. There are a lot of good reasons to delete your old tweets. Depending on the service, you may have to create an entirely new account with different credentials.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. You can check which services have access to your Twitter account via Settings -> Security and Account Access -> Apps and sessions -> Connected Apps (or, clicking here). That means you’ll want to double check which services you’ve used Twitter as a login for, and change your account info while you’re still able to. If you’ve ever used your Twitter credentials to sign into another service, the coming API shutoff could prevent you from being able to access your account. Change logins for apps where you’ve signed in with Twitter If you’re a Twitter user, chances are this will affect you in some way, and you shouldn’t wait until it’s too late to prepare. What we do know, is that once free access is shut off, thousands of apps, research projects, bots and other services will stop functioning (or, at the very least, be interrupted). Musk has suggested Twitter could charge $100 a month “with ID verification,” but hasn’t elaborated. So far, Twitter has communicated very little about the changes, other than confirming a February 9th cut-off date. After banning third-party clients without warning, Twitter announced that it would no longer allow any developer to use its APIs for free. Of all the once-unthinkable changes Elon Musk had made since taking over Twitter, pulling the rug out from under developers might seem relatively minor.

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