Blizzard Is Shutting Down WoW's In-Game Twitter Integration

Blizzard Is Shutting Down WoW's In-Game Twitter Integration

World of Warcraft is losing its built-in Twitter support, likely in response to Twitter’s plan to charge developers for access to the social media site’s API.

In a forum post, Blizzard explained that the feature will be automatically removed over the course of the next few days, after which the ability to tweet in-game will no longer be available.

The ability to tweet from Azeroth was added in 2015 as part patch 6.1, during the game’s Warlords of Draenor expansion. The feature allowed users to take selfies or other in-game screenshots, accompanied by text and Instagram-style filters, from within Blizzard’s MMORPG. Judging from many of the responses to the news on Blizzard’s official forum post, it doesn’t seem like the feature will be terribly missed, with numerous players remarking how they forgot the feature even existed.

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