Anti-harassment service Block Party leaves Twitter amid API changes

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Twitter’s paywalled API access has priced out the popular anti-harassment tool.

By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

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Recent changes to Twitter’s API access have “made it impossible for Block Party’s Twitter product to continue in its current form.”Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Block Party, an anti-harassment service designed to combat abusive content on Twitter, is the latest third-party app to leave the platform in light of Twitter locking most of its API access behind a paywall. Announced in a blog post last night, Block Party’s anti-harassment tools for Twitter are being placed on an immediate, indefinite hiatus, with the developers claiming that changes to Twitter’s API pricing (which starts from $100 per month) have “made it ..

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