![]() ![]() Your financial support may have paid the bills, but your spiritual support enriched our souls, and for that we can never thank you enough. The company, which has offices in North Carolina and Sweden, thanked the “generous and loyal support of … our wonderful customers and fans. Our little app made a big dent on the world!” It also pointed out that Ollie, Twitterrific’s bluebird mascot, “was so popular that it even prompted Twitter itself 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.” In its message, The Iconfactory said that since Twitterrific’s launch for desktop in 2007 - a year after Twitter’s arrival - Twitterrific “helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. Twitter hopes that those using the third-party apps will now move to the official app. It’s not clear what was behind the move, but many suspect new owner Elon Musk was unhappy that the apps didn’t carry Twitter’s ads, denting the company’s bottom line. Twitter added a new section saying that developers must not “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” Twitter stayed silent on the issue for days, but earlier this week tweeted that it was “enforcing its long-standing API rules,” a change that it said “may result in some apps not working.” The developer agreement on Twitter’s website appeared to make no mention of such rules, but on Thursday Twitter ditches legacy check marks, and it’s already confusingĮlon Musk setting up generative-AI project at Twitter, report claims Fenix developer Matteo Villa has also released a test version of his Mastadon app called Wooly.Elon Musk says he’s appointed a new Twitter CEO 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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