Twitter Makes Several Changes to Its Developer Policy

The social network has suspended 144,000 apps over the past six months

Twitter detailed several updates to its developer policy Wednesday.

Head of API (application-programming interface) policy Donald Hamblock said in a blog post that since the social network implemented its new developer review process in July 2018, it has reviewed over 1 million developer applications for API access, approving 75% of them.

Hamblock added that Twitter continues to remove bad actors from its platform, with 144,000 app suspensions over the past six months.

He said of the updates, “We want to empower and inspire more developers to build with Twitter, especially as we work on the next generation of the Twitter API.

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