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. 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.
TWEETBOT APP STORE FOR MAC
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. The post was widely seen as an attempt to kill off third-party Twitter clients, and eventually force users onto the official Twitter app.
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. The app should be back on the Mac App Store soon.- Tweetbot by Tapbots January 26, 2015 Including an updated macOS version of Tweetbot in that monthly or yearly subscription could also help add value to the new subscription, a strategy that other apps like Fantastical have employed in their own jumps from paid apps to ongoing subscriptions.We've worked with Twitter to resolve Tweetbot for Mac authentication issues.
TWEETBOT APP STORE UPGRADE
The company also has yet to announce any upgrade plans for the Mac version of Tweetbot, which currently uses the older Twitter API and still costs $9.99 upfront to use. Tapbots does note on its website that the new version of Tweetbot 6 is an “early access” version of the app, with “many new features on our roadmap to be built as well as new API’s to adopt as Twitter makes them available,” so it’s possible that the new app will get further functionality over time that may ease the bitter pill of the pricer subscription change. Furthermore, Tapbots will soon stop selling Tweetbot 5 on the App Store ( developer Paul Haddad says Apple made that a requirement to approve the new version), so new users soon won’t have the choice to buy the outdated older version for a single-time payment. At $0.99 per month (or a discounted $5.99 per year), the new app marks a price increase no matter how you look at things, while offering only a handful of new features to make up the difference.
TWEETBOT APP STORE UPDATE
The free version of the app offers some basic functionality in allowing users to view Twitter - but you’ll have to pay for more substantial features, including the ability to send or reply to tweets, along with support for multiple accounts, push notifications, and “advanced filtering.”Įxisting users may find the update to be a bit frustrating, given that Tweetbot 5 had previously been a single-time purchase for $4.99. Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers
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