Twitter Toolbox Third-Party Developer Initiative to Shut Down Dec. 15

The social network is also pausing its pilot test of tiles, an update to its tweet cards

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The tidal wave of changes in the Elon Musk era at Twitter is heading toward the platform’s third-party developer community, as the Twitter Toolbox initiative that debuted in February will be shuttered Dec. 15.

Ivan Mehta of TechCrunch reported that developers involved in the project received emails earlier this week that read, “Thank you for being part of the Twitter Toolbox pilot program. We’ve made a difficult decision to sunset Twitter Toolbox, effective Dec. 15.”

Twitter introduced Twitter Toolbox in February as a way to showcase a set of low-cost, easy-to-use tools built by its developer community for use by anyone.

Twitter Toolbox was organized into three categories.

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