You can tell the wheels keep falling off of Twitter when you get emails like the following from other businesses effected by Twitter’s, i.e. Musk’s hair brained decisions.

I received this email from WordPress on 10 February. WordPress is the group that hosts my blog. Twitter wrote that they were cutting off free access to the Twitter API. It’s that free access I use to automatically post to my Twitter account whenever I post an entry, such as this one. I don’t know when free access to the Twitter API is supposed to end except it’s Real Soon Now. Here’s the gist of the WordPress email.

Twitter recently announced they would end free access to the Twitter API on February 9th. A recent update extended that date to February 13th.

As a result of these unexpected changes, it is possible that Jetpack Social may experience some temporary outages when automatically sharing your posts directly from WordPress to Twitter.

We’re working with Twitter to find the best solution for our mutual users, so your workflows are not disrupted. We will reach out again when we have more information on the path forward.

Please feel free to connect with support if you need any help.

The WordPress.​com team

I pulled a copy of all my tweets from Twitter in January. I’ve now turned off publishing to Twitter, just like I turned off publishing to Facebook years ago. I have far more blog followers than I’ve every had Twitter followers (as if collecting either Twitter or WordPress followers was ever a goal for me; it wasn’t and never will be).

The 2016 election cycle pretty much killed all social media for me. Twitter is the last Big Social Media platform I was still on, but I’ve been winding down all my access to the platform as well as getting a full backup of my history on the platform. Practically speaking I’m pretty much gone from Twitter. I think I’ll just hang around and watch what happens. I have a morbid interest in watching Musk burn the whole thing down.