Update: Shortly after announcing its acquisition of Smyte, Twitter reportedly disabled access to the trust and safety service’s application programming interface (API) with “very little warning” to its existing customers.
According to TechCrunch, Smyte’s many former clients — Indiegogo and GoFundMe, among others — were left without anti-abuse and anti-fraud protections, as the unexpected move gave companies little time to transition to a new provider.
“We had a 3 years contract with them and they just disappeared overnight,” wrote a reported former Smyte client on Twitter. “No communication at all, they just turned their servers off, closed our shared support channel and walked away.”
Source: IGN.com Twitter Acquires Smyte, Immediately Shuts It Down