Welcome to the Tech Meam bride Home for Tuesday, November 16th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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crypto and NFT folks and Furries. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Twitter has made its version Tech.

Twitter has made its version 2 API announced in August of 2020 the default API going forward for developers, giving third-party apps more freedom as Twitter

aims to become more decentralized, quoting the verge. When Twitter announced

API version 2 in August 2020 it seemed like a chance to rebuild not only the infrastructure on which developers

build their apps and bots, but Twitter's relationship with the people using its platform as well.

API V2 is taking over API V1.1's job of letting third-party clients access and interact with

tweets and letting other developers create bots that do various things across the platform,

like introduce people to the weekend or gather

analytics for companies. When I talked to Amir Chavat Twitter's developer

platform lead about what the official switch to API V2 means for the platform.

He told me that it would make things better for users who wanted third-party Twitter clients.

He also revealed that the change was another step in the company's goal to become a decentralized

platform, that developers build apps

and experiences on top of making conversations better in ways that Twitter itself couldn't.

In its press release, Twitter says it's removing restrictions from its developer policy on how you build with Twitter's core features and limited

the number of users you can support through your app.

Schwat elaborated on this saying that the new policy will make it clear what's allowed

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