Hi everyone,

late last year we announced that Mastodon would be our primary social media channel going forward. Since then our Mastodon account has been thriving. It’s a wonderful community and our weekly geothreads have been very well received, as has our monthly geotrivia contest (the next edition of which will take place this Friday). Big thank you to everyone who has made Mastodon such a fun and welcoming place.

From 1 August 2023 we will change the stay_informed section of our geocoding API response to no longer include the twitter key value, as we are no longer actively using Twitter.

Currently, in JSON, that section of the API response looks like:

  "stay_informed": {
    "blog": "https://blog.opencagedata.com",
    "mastodon": "https://en.osm.town/@opencage",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/OpenCage"
  }

from 1 August it will look like:

  "stay_informed": {
    "blog": "https://blog.opencagedata.com",
    "mastodon": "https://en.osm.town/@opencage",
  }

If you are a paying customer of the API and this will cause you any inconvenience please get in touch.

As a reminder, the best way to stay up to date on the rare changes to the API is via our public change log.

Happy geocoding,

Ed