It has been rough recently for developers who have built applications for the Twitter platform. A week and a half ago, the company came under fire from a distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack and the defensive measures Twitter implemented had a severe effect on many external applications for several days.

"Over the past ten days we have been dealing with a lot of stress on our network and that has caused a number of our partners to be knocked offline for extended periods of time. This is obviously not something we want to happen, and the platform and [operations] teams have been working hard throughout that time to address the needs of our ecosystem while protecting the system as a whole," Sarver wrote.