Over 100,000 images from hacked ... them and started to create a searchable database indexed by the usernames ... Layer Web session used for the API are also hard-coded into the client.

Twitter outright told developers to stop making client apps in early 2011, changed its API to severely restrict them in mid-2012, and then removed auto-refresh and push notifications in 2018.

Under the new API rules, announced in April, developers of third-party clients won’t be able to earn money from ads and they won’t be able to show NSFW content on their apps.