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Twitter Kills Its Mac App (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes: Twitter has announced that it is killing its Mac app. Without warning, the company pulled the app from the Mac App Store and issued the following tweet. "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.
That's because they are working on a new unified app for Apple's new iOS on the Mac plan.... No need to continue to develop a dead end road.
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"We're focusing our efforts on a great Twitter experience" by losing 1000's of users
"But wait, I use that."
"Hey, you can't do that!"
"What the hell?! Why?!?"
Ah, can't you just feel the Free Love? Ain't zero-cost apps awesome?
BRB, gonna go log into Netflix now...see if they removed my favorite movies and shows again...gotta keep this buzz going.
honestly its all about the advertisers... Is anyone who advertises on twitter objecting to this ?
(so twitter will publish a website and mobile app's)
This would be interesting if they link to data showing desktop vs mobile vs Web usage.
regards
John Jones
Is this guy a paid shill or just a moron? To paraphrase:
Hello fellow Mac users! I too use a Mac, just like you. Twitter is pulling support for their app, and though that may upset you, Twitter says that using the website is better. And boy are they right! The web experience is great on any platform! You should be using it right now, instead of that stupid app.
I know, some other Mac users are going to say that they like native apps, but they're wrong. They don't like native apps. If you really want native apps, you can buy one of these native apps! But please don't like native apps. The correct way to use Twitter is through the website. And that's great, because you can get a better Twitter experience on a cheap Chromebook instead of an expensive stupid Mac. I mean... I like Macs, just like you, fellow Mac user.
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below!
Twitter confirms it.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I guess my only option is to continue not giving a shit about Twitter. Wake me up when they inevitably go out of business.
One hell of a way to discourage this guy Trump.
:)
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
The Twitter Mac app was dead a long time ago, they just kept the corpse twitching to torture users...
It never worked right for animated images, and never even got an update that let you use the new higher tweet character limit - presumably because the entire app would have had to be re-written from the ground up.
Luckily there are a few third party Mac apps that fall under the grandfathered "unlimited oAuth tokens" for Twitter API use, so any number of customers can use them... Twitter may just be giving up the pretense they can handle Mac development.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If you like the app you have, you can keep it.
That doesn't work once Twitter revokes the API key used by said app.
I never knew they had a Mac app. I've been using FIrefox for Twitter access. I can't see any reason to have an app when the browser does everything I need. I had to take the twitter app off my Android phone because it basically wanted to take over my phone. Damn sure I don't want anything like that on my Mac. Hell no.
maintain an app for a dead platform?
That it is Twitter itself that isn't dying (filing for Chapter 7)
They are just purveyors of crap and lies.
In a few decades we will look back and wonder why we were so stupid.
I suspect the Mac app was native (probably Objective-C).
I'll bet their new app will be React Native or Xamarin.
That's what I would recommend to them. Their service is pretty much the platonic ideal for a hybrid app.
Who needs an app to a website?
Mostly three people:
Shows how much the thing meant to me.... As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is based on such a simple premise, it's the last thing I want to install a whole application to do. It's bad enough I keep getting spam emails from them to "remind me" about other content people tweeted that I might want to sign in and read.
Because it was on slashdot the other day, you fucking moron. There needs to be at least one week before we get dupes.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Yes. What problems have you run into when accessing https://twitter.com/ from your web browser?
All of the Twitter clients I have used have pretty good support for multiple Twitter logins. The website has zero such support (unless I've missed something? Would be happy to be proven wrong here).
Like many people I know, I have a professional and a personal Twitter account. I'd prefer to be able to see both feeds interleaved, and to be able to easily post to either account. On the web site you have to log out and log back in, which really sucks compared to clients.
The Mac does have other standalone clients though, so it's not like Mac users are losing anything. If anything they are better off being forced to migrate to vastly better third party apps (the official Mac Twitter app is absolutely terrible).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
All of the Twitter clients I have used have pretty good support for multiple Twitter logins. The website has zero such support (unless I've missed something? Would be happy to be proven wrong here).
If you use Multi-Account Containers, a feature of Mozilla Firefox, any website supports multiple logins. Create a container for accounts related to your brand and another for personal use, and Firefox will track your Twitter cookies separately for tabs belonging to each container. It's not interleaving, but it does let you switch between the two more easily.
Does Safari support anything similar?
It's not a UTF-8 issue. It's Unicode combining characters again, just like Apple had problems with a couple of years ago.
They probably decided Apple were Russians or Nazis or racists or something, and banned them from Twitter in a huff. They get that way sometimes.
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
Why would you need that app on a computer when the website accessible via any browser is a fully functional option?
Doesn't MacOS depend on the twitter app in order to do it's twitter integration?
I could be wrong. I've always thought providing direct OS support for ephimeral services was silly, so I've always ignored that functionality anyway.
But for all the people that actually do care about this functionality, won't they get screwed over by this?