Latest API Casualty: TwitCleaner Quits Twitter

This continues our Twitter API Death Watch series.

As the death toll continues to rise, we bring you its latest casualty: TwitCleaner.

After working 62 hours straight trying to modify TwitClearner to work with Twitter’s new API restrictions, Si Dawson, Twitcleaner’s creator decided to call it quits because “the new API is so crippling that Twit Cleaner is unable to continue.”

“If I can’t even maintain the base service, I certainly can’t (won’t) roll out any new functionality I had planned, all of which sits on top of Twitter’s APIs,” Dawson says in his

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