You will no longer be able to Tweet your achievements from the game itself.
Twitter integration was introduced for World Of Warcraft way back in 2015 as part of the 6.1 “ Warlords of Draenor” update.
By connecting their World Of Warcraft account to their Twitter account, players could post tweets about obtaining rare or higher quality items, earning achievements, or taking screenshots and posting them to Twitter.
Blizzards community manager Kaivax announced the shutdown stating:
”Over the next two days, we will update World of Warcraft to remove the integrated Twitter posting feature.
After this small update, the function to Tweet from in-game will no longer be available, and the settings which store your Twitter credentials will no longer appear.
This will not require any action by players.”
Regrettably, since this message was posted on the 7th, the feature has already been disabled.
Several responses from the community indicate that the feature won’t be greatly missed.
Blizzard hasn’t given a reason for the shutdown as yet but a widely held assumption is that they are cutting the feature because Twitter is changing its API.
The API has previously been free for everyone, but Twitter is changing it. This was supposed to change on the 9th of February, the same day that Blizzard made its choice. Then it was revealed that the modifications will go into effect on the 13th and that “a new sort of free access” would thereafter be implemented.
The official tweet from Twitter stated:
Due to WoW’s limited use of Twitter, it does not seem worth it for Blizzard to pay upwards of $1,000 a year to keep the feature running.
Although WoW is losing its Twitter function it will be gaining a new addition namely the “Trading Post”.
Players can purchase premium cosmetics via the Trading Post, which offers a series of monthly challenges similar to a battle pass.
Players can earn currency by completing these monthly challenges. Despite lower sales compared to its previous expansion. Activision Blizzard has reported that Dragonflight has a higher subscriber retention rate than other recent expansions.
In conclusion, though this is bad news for some. Many fans don’t seem bothered by the news that they won’t be able to tweet their WoW accomplishments.