Yesterday Twitter officially announced retirement of the API v1.
Exploring developers forums shows that lots of third party services owners are unhappy with the new API limitations and Twitter’s requirement for applications to authenticate all the requests. At the same time Twitter representatives report: most of the valuable services that utilizes the API, successfully migrated their stuff.
Quick overview of the most mentioned Twitter tools gives reason to doubt in this statement.
After implementing API v1.1 for our Social Media Search tool Social Buzz, we collected information about other Free tools and shortly ended up with a list of 20 interesting tools that seemed to be affected by the Twitter API migration.
1. Monitter
Site URL: http://monitter.com
2. Twinitor
Site URL: http://www.twinitor.com
3. Kurrently
Site URL: http://www.kurrently.com
4. SocialMention
Site URL: http://socialmention.com
5. SnapBird
Site URL: http://snapbird.org
6. Whotweetedme
Site URL: http://whotweetedme.com
7. Backtweets
Site URL: http://backtweets.com
8. Tori’s eye
Site URL: http://toriseye.quodis.com
9. Socialcollider
Site URL: http://socialcollider.net
10. Visibletweets
Site URL: http://visibletweets.com
11. Revisit
Site URL: http://moritz.stefaner.eu/projects/revisit
12. The View from Above
Site URL: http://n96.org
13. Allmytweets
Site URL: http://www.allmytweets.net
14. Nearbytweets
Site URL: http://nearbytweets.com
15. Tinker
Site URL: http://www.tinker.com
16. Spezify
Site URL: http://www.spezify.com
17. Tweetchat
Site URL: http://www.tweetchat.com
18. Socialseek
Site URL: http://socialseek.com
19. Whathashtag
Site URL: http://www.whathashtag.circulorojo.es
20. Tweetgrid
Site URL: http://tweetgrid.com
Most of the issues can be easily diagnosed via the javascript console error message:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 410 (Gone)
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=
Bonus
Following sites seem to be out of work for now or discontinued completely:
http://slipstre.am/
http://shuu.sh/
http://adcause.com/
http://tweetscan.com/
http://www.earthtweet.com/
https://twitpay.com/
http://whatsmytwitteraccountworth.com
http://tweetburner.com/
http://areaface.com
http://visibli.com/
http://www.twitrratr.com/
Is your favourite Twitter tool also in down and not listed here? Please, drop a line in the comments. Let me know what do you think about this situation.
