Twitter Is Tightening Up Developers’ Access to Its APIs

The social network removed more than 143,000 apps between April and June

Twitter is taking steps to clean up its image and avoid its own version of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, announcing that it removed more than 143,000 applications that violated its policies between April and June, and that it implemented a new process for developers requesting access to its application-programming interfaces.

Manager, trust and safety Yoel Roth and senior director of product management Rob Johnson wrote in a blog post, “We do not tolerate the use of our APIs to produce spam, manipulate conversations or invade the privacy of people using Twitter,” adding that the social network is “continuing to invest” in tools and processes to quickly snare malicious apps.

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