Cryptogon Syndication to Twitter Disabled

May 20th, 2023

For about a decade, I’ve been able to automatically post Cryptogon stories to Twitter using a plugin called WP to Twitter.

That ended about a hour ago.

After trying to troubleshoot, recreating my Twitter apps and API keys, etc. I’m getting this error:

403 Forbidden: The request is understood, but has been refused by Twitter. (Error Code: 453: You currently have access to Twitter API v2 endpoints and limited v1.1 endpoints only. If you need access to this endpoint, you may need a different access level. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/about-twitter-api#v2-access-leve)

My best guess is that they want US$100 per month for API access now, which is crazy. My usage is well within the free tier, but it just doesn’t work.

I found a post from the WP to Twitter developer on what has happened:

The latest news, as of mid April 2023:

Recently, Twitter has started suspending many people’s apps who are using WP to Twitter. This is not something I can do anything about. They’re using the same logic to shut it down that they used to shut down all of the major Twitter apps.

You can always create another new app and reconnect it to WP to Twitter, but you should assume that at some point they will shut down the new one as well.

Given this, I do not have any intention to ship any further updates to WP to Twitter. I have disabled sales on WP Tweets Pro, and will probably be shutting down WP to Twitter in the WordPress plugin repository soon.

I have no faith in Twitter having consistent policies or clear documentation that I could use to create a product that gives anything approximating a good user experience.

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So, that’s it.

The Cryptogon feed on Telegram remains fully operational.

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