If you had a subscription on iOS, it will be automatically cancelled by the App Store.įinally, if you were subscriber to Twitterrific for iOS, we would ask you to please consider not requesting a refund from Apple. You changed our lives forever.īut, as much as it pains us to say it, Twitterrific for iOS and macOS have now been removed from both App Stores. Your financial support may have paid the bills, but your spiritual support enriched our souls and for that we can never thank you enough. None of those amazing achievements would have been possible without the generous and loyal support of you, our wonderful customers and fans. Our little app made a big dent on the world! Ollie, Twitterrific’s bluebird mascot, was so popular it even prompted Twitter themselves to later adopt a bluebird logo of their very own. It was the first desktop client, the first mobile client, one of the very first apps in the App Store, an Apple Design award winner, and it even helped redefine the word “ tweet” in the dictionary. Since 2007, Twitterrific helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. Fenix developer Matteo Villa has also released a test version of his Mastadon app called Wooly.A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. Tweetbot maker Tapbots is building a Mastadon client called Ivory and aims to release it soon. Some have already started on other projects. The way aheadĭevelopers are heartbroken by this move as the pro and premium subscription to their apps contributed to their income, and now it’s suddenly gone. He also criticized the way the company is now communicating with developers. Last month, in a column for TechCrunch, Shevat (who is no longer at the company) wrote that the new Twitter management broke the trust of developers. Twitter Toolbox and many other developer projects are no longer going ahead. In an interview with TechCrunch, Amir Shevat, who was heading developer platforms at Twitter at the time, said that the company is exploring building some kind of app store.īut all that came crashing down after Musk took over the company. In 2022, it launched Twitter Toolbox, a way to showcase and promote third-party apps. In 2020, it launched a new API with multiple access levels to cater to many developer use cases. In the last few years, the social media company started rebuilding trust with developers. But given how Musk has handled the company, there is not much hope for a full release. The company shut down Tweetdeck for Mac last year and has been testing a new web version with a select number of users. One of the classic examples of Twitter ignoring non-native clients is Tweetdeck, a company that it acquired in 2011. Two years later, it curtailed access to its firehose data by terminating agreements with partners. The company started restricting third-party Twitter clients in 2012. Twitter has had a long history of disregarding developers contributing to the ecosystem. not valuing developers that give users an option to experience the platform in different ways. Twitterrific has contributed to things like the bird logo, character count and conversations (replies). Tweetie, an app Twitter acquired in 2010, was behind the pull to refresh the timeline feature that everyone is familiar with. Third-party clients have added so much to Twitter as a platform. While Twitter hasn’t given an explanation for this move, it could be to exert control over users and force them to use its own clients. Image Credits: Twitter/TweenApp (opens in a new window)
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