The new requirements of developers are to protect our platform: Twitter

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it is taking additional steps to ensure that its developer platform is working to service the overall health of the conversation on the platform.
Starting on Wednesday, all new requests for Twitter's standard and premium APIs will have to go through its new developer account application process launched in November, which includes use case reviews and audits. compliance, as well as new protections. to prevent the recording of spam and poor quality applications.

Twitter said that if this change adds a few steps and extra time to the process of starting access to its APIs, it is committed to supporting all developers who want to build high quality experiences and comply with the policy using its platform developer and APIs, while reducing the impact of bad actors on its service.

Twitter announced that between April and June 2018, it removed more than 143,000 applications that broke its rules and continued to invest in creating new tools and processes to help it to stop malicious applications faster and more efficiently. To this end, in addition to continuing his work to remove problematic applications after they are already active, he is taking steps to limit the access of these applications to his platform.

The company announced that it was introducing a new way for all developers to request access to the Twitter APIs, as well as upcoming changes to increase the accountability of applications creating and interacting with content and accounts on Twitter at high volume. These changes will allow him to have more visibility and control over how developers use his platform and the public data of users of his service, and will help fight spam and platform abuse. .

All developers with existing access to their APIs will need to complete a developer account application to maintain their applications. It will provide at least 90 days notice before applying this requirement. He may choose to remove apps.twitter.com before applying this requirement; In this case, developers will have access to the management of their applications on developer.twitter.com, even if they have not started the application process yet.

Upon application, all developers will be required to provide detailed information on how they use or intend to use the Twitter APIs to better ensure compliance with its policies, said the company. Requests submitted with incomplete or insufficient information may be delayed.

Following approval of the application, developers may be subject to additional policy revisions as they modify the use of Twitter APIs by their application or request access additional products or features, including the ability to post content to Twitter. the default number of applications registered by a single developer account to 10.

Developers who need to register more than 10 applications (for example, to activate customer-specific products that require separate applications) can request authorization using the Support Policy form. # 39; s API. If they already have more than 10 registered applications, they can continue to use them as long as they follow the rules of Twitter, but they will not be able to register new applications until they have n '. will not have asked for permission of additional applications or deleted unused applications.