How to Wreck a Service

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Going on twenty-four hours, a good part of the Twitter API is down, and third-party Twitter clients like Tweetbot are DOA. Reports are that inquiries from app companies to Twitter about the situation have gone unanswered.

Is this the result of a lack of support or software engineers at the "new Twitter" or sleazy self-sabotage? Whatever the reason, it's no way to run a company.

Let the third-party clients back in, Twitter!

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/13/tweetbot-twitter-apps-still-broken-elon-musk-api/

From 9to5 Mac:

There’s a real possibility that Elon Musk only recently learned that there’s an ecosystem of third-party Twitter apps out there. These apps use the official Twitter API and are (or were) sanctioned by Twitter. The apps don’t, however, show any advertisements on behalf of Twitter.

Regardless of Twitter’s reasoning, this is an awful situation, and, unsurprisingly, Twitter’s communication has been disastrous and cowardly. If the company was planning to make changes to the Twitter API, those changes should have been well-communicated to developers ahead of time.

Richard Kelly Talks about his movie Donnie Darko

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A short but interesting interview with Director and screenwriter of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly. Donnie Darko, for me, belonged to a special class of movies that I ran across playing late at night on HBO and I immediately knew I had to watch again with friends. The movie assembled a quirky spookiness and a subversive flick to the ear of rigid normality in what is really a strange world.

I miss the time where there truly were cult classics that traveled under the radar so much that you never heard of them until you stumble across them during a channel search on TV at 2am. The excitement of bring something you enjoyed to friends confident that they’d probably never heard of it either. In a lot of very important ways, those days are gone. Sharing links aren’t the same.

More interviews about movies and screenwriting at the Austin Film Festival’s On Story site.