How long will this realistically continue to work? APIs change all the time. The second there is a backwards incompatible change pushed out to their servers (which could happen tomorrow) you are out of luck. There is also possibly code out there already which says to only allow older clients up to a certain minimum date or version.
Of course. But the "old" version I've installed is still very recent, July 2023, and I'd assume there are a ton of devices out there still running that build and even older builds with no way to update. They could cut old versions off, but they would be cutting off a lot of users.
When I did this in 2016 for eBay and Google Inbox I got a year out of each.
For this Twitter app, I'll enjoy it whilst it lasts. I'm a glass half full kind guy.
While I agree that Elon is petty enough to ban when slighted, it seems to me that simply running an older client version has too many other probable reasons to be clearly interpreted as personal insult.
One could reasonably argue that in some cases they were stretching the meaning of a rule, but they didn’t just arbitrarily ban users.
Heck, if there was one thing the Twitter Files actually showed it was the massive amount of debate and discussion and fretting that the powers at Twitter spent over most of their decisions.
Twitter had always been notorious for banning high profile users, and turning total blind eyes on sock puppets and ban evasions(justified because bans make no sense in the first place, and probably because support have no time to reinstate everyone). That hasn't changed.
