![]() Updated 27 January to include Tapbot’s tweet. The company makes one other Mac app, CalcBot, as well as a number of iOS apps. ![]() Tweetbot’s developer, Tapbots, did not return a request for comment. It’s even managed to be more actively maintained than the official Twitter app over the same period. As Twitter rolls out new features to its once-neglected API, the popular third-party app Tweetbot continues to become more powerful. Despite a constrained usersbase, and ongoing limitations from Twitter in terms of what third-party clients can access through the API, the app is viewed fondly by many users. The bulk of development had occurred before the app was released, leaving Tapbots with an uncomfortable choice: how best to release an app with a lifetime maximum of 100,000 users? In the end, the company decided to increase the price of the app far beyond the norm for Twitter apps, charging users $19.99 – a hard sell, especially given Twitter’s own app for Macs is free.īut two and a half years later, the choice has seemingly been proved right. Twitter cannot display adverts on third-party apps, and it has no control over which of its new features get rolled out when.Īlthough the company grandfathered in permission for already existing apps to have more than that user count – and grow until they have at most twice the users they had in August 2012 – Tweetbot for Mac was one of the first high-profile apps to launch after the limit was put in place. Tweetbot 6 is now a subscription-based app and will require a 0.99 per month or 5.99 per year subscription fee to unlock the app's full functionality. Switch to the 'Mutes' tab Click 'Edit' Click '+' Click 'Mute Keyword' Click inside the Keyword field. ![]() The post was widely seen as an attempt to kill off third-party Twitter clients, and eventually force users onto the official Twitter app. The problem is that adding a new 'mute keyword' to Tweetbot requires way too many steps. That announcement was also the source of Twitter’s infamous “quadrant” guidance, when the company attempted to explain which uses of its application programming interface (API) were acceptable, and which weren’t. The rule dates back to August 2012, when Twitter announced that any new app which was mainly used to access the users’ timeline would need explicit permission to have more than 100,000 users. Version 7 is built on Twitter’s V2 API which includes features like the ability to view Twitter polls, cards, and more tweet data. The app should be back on the Mac App Store soon.- Tweetbot by Tapbots January 26, 2015 Tweetbot is an award-winning Twitter client for iOS and the Mac. We've worked with Twitter to resolve Tweetbot for Mac authentication issues.
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