![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tweetbot makes Twitter feel light and friendly to me. When I use the first-party client, I feel like I’m being played around with for business reasons. It’s not solely the prompts to follow other accounts, or the strange reversal of the reverse-chronological timeline when a self-replying thread appears, or the real-time updates to retweet and like numbers - it’s a combination of all of those things, and many more. It’s something about the app that makes Twitter, as a concept, feel heavy and burdensome. It isn’t the ads that are a problem - they’re distracting, of course, but they’re a known kind of distraction. I wanted to be fair, so I gave the official client another shot this week. Tweetbot and Twitterrific used to allow users to turn on notifications for mentions, direct messages, retweets, quote tweets, likes, and follows, but don’t anymore. Tweetbot doesn’t support streaming anymore either, but it too will periodically refresh your timeline when the app is open. Instead, your timeline will refresh every two minutes or so over WiFi or a mobile data connection when the app is running. Twitterrific used to allow you to live-stream your timeline over WiFi, which is no longer possible. Whichever app you use, the biggest changes are to timeline streaming and push notifications. Twitterrific’s Today view, which was similar to Tweetbot’s Activity view, was removed from sale as a premium feature in July, will stop working when the API changes take effect, and will be retired in the future. I will particularly miss the Stats and Activity view of Tweetbot, which has long been one of my favorites. Recent feature and settings improvements (many of which are only possible in a Twitter-owned app) include: We’ve long believed this - we’ve focused on delivering the best experience for our apps and sites for years. TWITTERRIFIC APPLE WATCH ENABLE PUSH ANDROIDWe feel the best Twitter experience we can provide today is through our owned and operated Twitter for iOS and Android apps, as well as desktop and mobile. TWITTERRIFIC APPLE WATCH ENABLE PUSH WINDOWSWe’ve removed support for Twitter for Apple Watch and Twitter for Mac, we’ve replaced our previous Twitter for Windows app with our Progressive Web App, and today we’re removing support for some outdated developer tools. As part of this, we’ve chosen to stop supporting some other experiences. This year, we’re moving faster towards this goal by focusing on improving Twitter for iOS, Android, and. Our goal is to deliver the best Twitter for you. It said the clients relied on “legacy technology” that was still in a “beta state” after more than 9 years, and had to be killed “out of operational necessity.” In a company email it shared today, Twitter cited “technical and business constraints” that it can no longer ignore as being the reason behind the APIs’ shutdown. Twitter Company Email Addresses Why It’s #BreakingMyTwitter ![]()
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