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Twitter Kills Its Mac App (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the no-real-commitment dept.

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.

6 of 52 comments (clear)

  1. Re:New unified App by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you normally keep a version available and maintained until the new one is ready? How am I supposed to tweet from my Mac? A web browser?

  2. API key revocation by tepples · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:New unified App by cstacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you like the app you have, you can keep it.

    Twitter is repealing and replacing their current app, and won't get rid of the existing one until the new one is available. It will be essentially simultaneous. And it will be MUCH better than the current app. MUCH. Also, Facebook will pay for it!

  4. Re:New unified App by _xeno_ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The best part of the Twitter app on Mac was that it's so out of date, they never bothered implementing ads - I'm sorry, "promoted tweets" - on it. That would be one reason to use it: built-in ad blocking.

    But other than that - yeah, I don't see a point to a Twitter app. If you want an "app-like experience" just grab a Twitter tab and throw it into its own little window. Boom. Twitter app.

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    You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
  5. Re:The Mac is dead. by HiThere · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gee...I'll have to think about switching to using a Mac. All the Twitter folks are going away.

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    I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
  6. Multi-Account Containers in Firefox by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?