It might be partly due to their API keys and secrets being leaked a while back.

http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/03/07/twitters-api-keys-a...

Is Twitter an open-allocation company? This feels like what happens when there's something that needs to get done, but nobody really feels like working on it and there's no top-down command to do it.

One interesting note: the deprecation of v1 of the API was going to force them to either remove the app or update it. During the blackout for unauth'd endpoints a few features (notably search) stopped working. I just checked and the new version is indeed hitting v1.1 of the API now.

Also noticed that the Develop section has somehow survived, which was an old Tweetie feature allowing you to change the Oauth tokens that are used: http://d.pr/i/HMjs

I did, it wasn't even retina capable last I looked at it.