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The submission is unclear. I get "The apge is down". I guess the submitter wants to tell us that the page might have been intentionally removed? Or Twitter have too few employees left to keep their stuff maintained?

Well, I have come to my conclusion some weeks ago: I don't want to have anything to do with Twitter anymore.

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It's alluding to the fact that the Developer API seems to have been decommissioned.

Maybe it was reactive to reduce load on the platform but more likely it's because it was a deliberate change.

Not sure how a bunch of static pages for developer API docs would reduce load. Compared to the load of actually using the API, it’s minuscule.

Oh. He said "Developer API", not the "Developer API Docs."

I believe he meant all of the countless bots and apps and "remindme" etc 3rd party functionality that developers have added on to twitter.

At some point I'd be un-surprised to see all of those removed, and replaced as internal for-pay functionality, given the way things are going.

> I guess the submitter wants to tell us that the page might have been intentionally removed?

Pretty much. At the very least I wanted to spark some sort of conversation about it.

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