WASHINGTON – Facebook cut off its access to its API platform for hundredsof thousands of apps yesterday. Facebook has taken this step t in an effortto make user data secure. Twitter was also amongst the apps that wereimpacted.
As a result, Twitter users who had their accounts synced to Facebook can nolonger share their tweets and retweets on Facebook automatically.
Facebook has cut off its Publish Actions Permissions from its API- afeature that enabled apps to automatically post on social media as thelogged in user.
Facebook statedlinkinApril,
“The publish_actions permission will be deprecated. This permission grantedapps access to publish posts to Facebook as the logged in user. Appscreated from [April 24] onwards will not have access to this permission.Apps created before [April 24] that have been previously approved torequest publish_actions can continue to do so until August 1, 2018. Nofurther apps will be approved to use publish_actions.”
Facebook had set a deadline for all the app makers to submit their app forreview to Facebook. Facebook announced that after the deadline which wasAugust 1st, Facebook will start its crackdown on apps.
Twitter Support team tweeted on Thursday that the team has observed thatusers can no longer publish tweets on Facebook.
“You have the option to share via Direct Message with your followers, orthrough an SMS or email to your contacts from your phone’s address book,”the Twitter Support page tweeted.
According to Facebook, anyone who wishes to have Twitter contentautomatically posts to Facebook can avail the option to use Facebook’s‘share dialogs’ for the web, iOS, and Android.