Twitter confirms that it's blocking 3rd party apps; know more here

Many users have expressed their thoughts on the company's announcement.

Twitter has announced that it is blocking third-party applications like Tweetbot and Twitterrific. The platform tweeted from its @TwitterDev account on Tuesday.

It said: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working."

Many users expressed their thoughts on the company's announcement.

Notably, Twitter CEO Elon Musk last week said that Twitter's "open source" algorithm will be revealed next month, as a lot of people were unable to use third-party Twitter apps and faced issues with logging and accessing feeds. He further said that Twitter will publish a tweet recommendation code and make the account/tweet status visible no later than next month.

"Transparency builds trust," the Twitter CEO had posted.

Reactions from users

One user asked, "oh yeah? what rules did Tweetbot broke? And Twitterrific?"

Another user wrote: "Translation: We're embarrassed other apps are better so instead of improving ours, we'll just block them".

About Twitter

Twitter - often described as "the SMS of the internet" - is an online social media and social networking service on which users send and respond publicly or privately to 280-character-long messages, images, and videos known as "tweets".

The platform was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. It garnered enormous popularity within a few years, and by 2012, it had more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day.