Twitter API – My Discourse API App for Tweet previews was suspended

[terraboss (Markus)]

The original topic & issue was this:

Tweet preview is no longer working on my instance

Some time ago Discourse stopped displaying the Twitter links properly as previews. I now only get an error message. It seems to work for you guys. Why ever! I am using the latest version. What could be the problem? Example at meta: On my instance: [image]

Today I received the following email from Twitter:

Application suspension notice

Hello,
This is a notice that your app - Discourse API - has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API.

Please visit developer.twitter.com to sign up to our new Free, Basic or Enterprise access tiers.

More information can be found on our developer community forums.

Regards,
Twitter Developer Platform

Does anyone know what this is about?

+++ Update +++
Looks like a widespread problem.

X - The Everything App

Application suspension notice

Hopefully at some point the Discourse developer team can come up with a sustainable solution to the Twitter problem so that a Twitter App & API is no longer necessary for every single forum owner.

[Jonathan5]

I think the idea is to charge people for accessing Twitter data via the API, but it seems that the oEmbed API allows embedding (using the URL of an existing tweet) at no cost:

Bye bye embedded tweet previews

Where does this fit into the grand scheme of things? The oEmbed API returns simple embed HTML in an oEmbed-compatible format. You can use the oEmbed API to programmatically return embedded content, such as Tweets and timelines. The response from the oEmbed API will return an HTML snippet that will be automatically recognized when Twitter’s widget JavaScript is included on the page. Please note that the API is recommended for performing tasks in bulk, and we advise using our robust publish.tw…

[JammyDodger]

There is some discussion about this in the topic @Jonathan5 has linked so I’ll close this one off so we can focus the conversation there.