Andy BaioTwitter quietly changed its Developer Agreement today to retroactively justify their unannounced ban on third-party Twitter clients. They added a single line forbidding "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications." Here's a diff between the two. https://www.diffchecker.com/DmAjUJGK/
An absolute kick in the teeth to all the indie devs who worked so hard to make Twitter a better experience for so many. Twitterrific was officially discontinued today and pulled off the App Store after 16 years of development. Among other firsts, they first used "tweet" to describe an update, first used a bird icon, and were the first native client on iPhone and Mac. https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/
Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom
Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]
Casey Kelley@andybaio Not to mention the official app started as a third party app. 🙄
Stirling C / @stirlo.be@ckelley87 @andybaio was it Erica Sadun that invented the now-ubiquitous Drag down to refresh gesture too? I think she did it for her Twitter client and now it’s prevalent on iOS, macOS
not sure about other OS
warjan@Stirlo @ckelley87 @andybaio according to Wikipedia's article on pull-to-refresh it is Loren Brichter who invented it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-to-refresh
@warjan @ckelley87 @andybaio ty I wasn’t 100% certain but I do recall ;; they weren’t given enough / any or much credit for that one
Sean Reilly@Stirlo @warjan @ckelley87 @andybaio Loren got quite a lot of credit by iOS developers in general, and is widely regarded as a software wizard. His Twitter app (Tweetie) was bought by twitter and became their official iOS app