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According to a recent thread on Twitter’s API discussion forum, they have decided to disable an API method that Gridjit relies on in order to provide its service. This is due to the scaling / load problems that Twitter has experienced in the last few months.

It is odd that they decided to remove the method if nobody was using (as they seem to conclude from the messages on the forum) and it wasn’t causing any problems for them. Obviously this isn’t the case for Gridjit.

In the short term, Gridjit is essentially unusable, and for that I apologize. Very soon, however, I will be releasing a new version of Gridjit that gets around this limitation.

Twitter, in this decision, however, has removed a very valuable part of their network - the discoverable, open nature of the platform. This, in my opinion, was a key differentiator for them from FriendFeed (which Gridjit 2.0 will also support). I do hope they change their minds. If you agree, please consider dropping them a line and asking them to re-enable the support for this method.