Shame on Twitter

Thursday January 12th the access to #twitter by great third party apps was killed. Original assumptions based on presumed staff shortage at Twitter Office suggested the inability to fix API problems quickly. Not so. 

Tweetbot kindly refers to 'Service Disruption'

Soon word got out through one of Twitter's senior software engineers that shutting down third party apps was done deliberately. On January 15th #Tweetbot returned for a few hours using older developers' API's enabling users to browse their timelines though not to post anything. But then later that day Paul Haddad (@paul@tapbots.social) illustrated on #Mastodon the foul play at #Twitter.

Shame on #Twitter for abruptly ending long standing and good quality apps, by far to be preferred to its own annoying messy advertising spambot and not being communicative at all. Yuck!

Right under your nose, iPhone has built in scan app.

Sometimes, the obvious is there and you didn't realise. If you want to use your iPhone to scan a QR-code, there is a simple trick. Pull down the search screen and type in the word 'code':

search for code (scanner)

This will result in the popping up of the hidden app Code Scanner. Activate it and you get a nice scan area along with the possibility to open your flashlight. Very neat. Did you know? I didn't.