Internet related News · 2018-04-03

Instagram’s choke-hold on developers – News

Without warning, Instagram  has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a massive reduction in how much data they can pull from the Instagram API, shrinking the API limit from 5,000 to 200 calls per user per hour.

Instagram is limiting how much data some developers can collect from its API — and cutting off others altogether – Recode

http://news.google.com Apr 2, 2018 

Instagram is cutting off API access for some developers and limiting how often others can use its API to collect data on Insta …

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Instagram abandons its Apple Watch app – The Verge

http://news.google.com Apr 3, 2018 

Instagram no longer has an Apple Watch app. The Verge can confirm that the version 39.0 update to the iPhone client, which comes with a changelog simply stating “general bug fixes and performanc …

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Instagram breaks third-party apps, services by throttling its API call limit – Memeburn

http://news.google.com Apr 3, 2018 

In what seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to its parent company’s recent leaky-data woes, Instagram has restricted third-party developers from accessing its da …

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Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy – TechCrunch

http://news.google.com Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:34:44 GMT

Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a massive reduction in how much …

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