What’s up with Twitter’s Flash/ActionScript 3 API?

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Update: Brian found it – http://code.google.com/p/twitterscript/. But I still find it odd it isn’t listed on the library page. Maybe an oversight.

Chuck noticed that Twitter’s ActionScript3 Library is gone. They’ve moved their API stuff over to a Google Groups but AS3 no longer appears on the list of libraries. That’s odd considering how big AIR and the Flash Player have been for Twitter. I also noticed that they’ve locked down their crossdomain.xml file to a few companies. Is that the reason they ditched the AS3 API? Was it because of the changes in the Flash Player?

If anyone knows, I’d love to hear the story. Seems crazy that Twitter would just ditch AS3 like that.

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  • thinman

    It’s a conspiracy: Mozilla invited Twitter over for “Kool-Aid”. Twitter went, drank, and became extremely foggy on the facts all of a sudden. Been happening in the blogosphere for a week now….

  • Joe

    Weren’t they blaming their outages to non-browser based clients. Maybe somebody was misusing the system and so they shut it down.

  • http://westcoastlogic.com Brian LeRoux

    Funny, I noticed this very same thing the past weekend but I found the lib on Google Code via their Google Group:

    http://code.google.com/p/twitterscript/

    It says, “This is an ActionScript 3.0 library for accessing Twitter’s APIs. This was originally code from Twitter, but it is being open sourced so it can be maintained and kept current.”

  • http://fupeg.blogspot.com Michael Galpin

    I “took over” the API a few weeks back. I needed to use it for a project, and it was very out-dated. I talked to @al3x and he confirmed that nobody was maintaining. He said it was ok for me to release my modified version on Google Code.

    So far I updated all of the “update” based APIs, since I figure those are the ones people will need the most. I also cleaned up the code dramatically. If anyone would like to help, please contact me.