It’s been a while since I wrote about that social network, Twitter, which is melting slowly. Since the last PSA, Twitter has disabled all third-party clients and now charging for the API (Application Programming Interface) used in many WordPress blog post sharing and Twitter to Mastodon Autoposter. This Twitter API rug pull can impact most, …
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