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Best Twitter App For Mac

• Aug 16, 2018 - Twitter is turning off the APIs for key features on August 16th, essentially hobbling all client apps except its own.
• Twitter announced on Saturday that beginning immediately, its Mac app will no longer be available for download, and the app will no long.

Twitter has officially discontinued its app for Mac. The company made the announcement via a tweet a few minutes ago and as already pulled it from the Mac App Store. We're focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience that's consistent across platforms. So, starting today the Twitter for Mac app will no longer be available for download, and in 30 days will no longer be supported. For the full Twitter experience on Mac, visit Twitter on web. Did you use Twitter for Mac?

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Twitter has officially discontinued its app for Mac. The company made the announcement via a tweet a few minutes ago and as already pulled it from the Mac App Store.

By. 12:27 pm, July 24, 2012. Tweetbot for Mac has been pulled from the Mac App Store. Photo: Tapbots Do you have a favorite third-party Twitter app that you use everyday? I use on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. I’ve been using third-party Twitter clients since I joined the social network in 2008. It’s fun to switch apps and try new clients as they are released for different devices.

Many would say that Twitter has succeeded because of the developer community that made (and continues to make) such great apps. Heck, Twitter wouldn’t even have its own mobile or desktop app if it hadn’t bought Tweetie years ago. Like any growing business, Twitter’s mission as a platform is changing. In a recent interview, the CEO of Twitter explained what kind of apps and services the company wants to have tie into its platform, and there isn’t much room left for the third-party apps we all know and love. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo speaking with The Wall Street Journal: As Twitter burnishes its platform, Mr.

Costolo added that Twitter also wants to move away from companies that “build off of Twitter, to a world where people build into Twitter.” Essentially, Costolo is saying that if it can’t already be done by Twitter’s own web and app clients, then don’t bother making it. In the same way that developers create applications for Facebook, apps and services should only serve to enhance the Twitter experience, not replicate it. Twitter’s new approach makes sense from a brand and financial perspective. Unfortunately, that leaves the traditional clients like (the app that originated “tweet,” by the way), and even Tweetbot in the cold.

What kind of apps would Twitter continue to allow under its stricter API rules? A service like is a perfect example of a service that “builds into Twitter” instead of building off Twitter.

You can create linear collections of tweets to tell a story. In no way does that service service the same purpose as a standalone Twitter client like. In fact, Storify actually prompts people to check out Twitter’s website. That’s the kind of third-party service any similar kind of social network would want to encourage. Recently performed an unscientific survey and determined that only about a third of Twitter’s user base relies on third-party apps. While it’s undoubtedly true that the majority of Twitter users don’t know anything more than the official mobile app and website, there’s a very passionate, dedicated (albeit small) demographic of Twitter users who love third-party apps.

It looks like enraging (and possibly losing) that smaller demographic is a sacrifice Twitter is willing to make, unfortunately. Will Twitter flip a kill switch one day that shuts down all of the apps like Tweetbot and? Probably not. Will Twitter eventually cut off API access to the point where developers can’t make full-fledged apps anymore? Source: Image.