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/
Manolo AlvarezAn 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. 🙄
Nicolás Alvarez@ckelley87 @andybaio in fact the official iOS app is *still* internally called Tweetie (to change the bundle ID users would need to reinstall it as a new app)
Stirling C / @stirlo.be@ckelley87 @andybaio founded and invented by a guy from SA, no? ;) ;( 🪦
@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
JimmySwizzle@andybaio
It was my first platform. Easy to use and allowed some customizations. So long, old friend.
It was my first platform. Easy to use and allowed some customizations. So long, old friend.
Brian Dear@andybaio I remember installing it 16 years ago. Always loved the app icon. I migrated to Echofon Pro soon after and never looked back. Echofon dead as well. Never forget what Elon Musk has done and never forgive or trust him..
Ali@brianstorms @andybaio I was a Twitteriffic 2.0 user, then got tempted over to Tweetbot. Such a pathetic way to go out. Would expect nothing less from space Karen.
stellth@andybaio I’m sad.
hyperjeff@andybaio nit picking, but it was among the first twitter apps in the app store, there were 2 others released on the same day
@hyperjeff what were the other two?
@andybaio I believe one was Twittelator, and forget the other. Only Twitterific was promoted by Apple onstage when the store opened. I remember thinking it was a bit unfair to play favorites, but Apple does that. — Some chance my memory is off.
twenty3@hyperjeff @andybaio pretty sure Twitteriffic was available in the pre-App Store days. Almost positive they won an ADA before the store launched and was available for jailbreak before the SDK. Twinkle might have been another jailbreak app that was in the store on day one.
@hyperjeff Yeah, looks like Twittelater was also available on day 1 of the App Store, and Tapulous’s Twinkle came out a couple days later.
LindaNYC2VT Ⓥ 🌊🐖🐄🐓🦃🐬🐝🦋🦇@andybaio Now let’s move on to the end of Twitter entirely. It’s a toxic hellscape since Musk took over.
Tim Richards@andybaio @just_alex Disgustingly unprofessional behaviour by Musk. Words fail me.
Colin Cogle 🔵@andybaio I remember Twitterrific. It was a simpler time: back when the iPhone was new, Cydia was giving way to the App Store, and Twitter was cool.
Golda@andybaio they make lovely little encapsulated apps that do not try to lock you in anywhere, it seems - Write (Tot), Draw (Linea), Listen (Triode), Play ... hope they are able to reinvent and thrive
Misty@andybaio It’s such a depressing and absurd way to end this.
Igor Brejc 🇺🇦 🌻@andybaio an TWiT interview with the founder (before they made the decision to pull out) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Hqt47ZP5E
Twitter’s API Restrictions
@andybaio “impressive” move by Musk; it’s only been 12 weeks and I think he may be more unliked than Zuckerberg. Not certain but I’m sure amongst Twitter employees, heavy users and even occasional
🪦 to all the good third party clients and hopefully someone else takes the reins before Twitter is deserted or full of ads, 💩 and the worst possible content.
(Anecdotal—but noticing I am posting here a lot more, and slowly finding and following all the people and sources I had on Twitter too.
Comrade elronxenu@andybaio I've never seen such unprofessional behaviour from a company so reliant on the goodwill of its users.
nilsmielke ⁂@andybaio I used to use it all those years. It was, well…um,… terrific.
hikewithrichard@andybaio I read the article and I thought "stop crying and playing the victim, and modify the code to work with Mastodon." I invested thousands of hours in Twitter as a user, and I'm pissed off about the new owner and his idiotic behaviour but I move on despite losing touch with the community. That's life. Having a 16 year run is excellent in my eyes. On the web we usually move around within three to five years, not sweet sixteen. ;-) (sound of music joke/allusion). At the same time they could start a lawsuit against twitter to get them to give them back the required permissions. I think twitter is undermining its own value by its actions.
Wildpitch@andybaio huge shame.
smidbot@andybaio what’s funny is Nitter, the floss web front end for twitter, still works because it uses an undocumented API that twitter seems to have forgot exists
@JonathanMosen @andybaio Agree with all this, don't know if I'll stick around on twitter when twblue quits working or not, I frankly find this Mastodon a bit of a pain in the ass and a bit complex to deal with, it is going to be much harder to teach to students than twitter is but this really pisses me off and once you get it working with a third party client Mastodon isn't bad.
Jonathan Mosen@PaganLord116 That’s interesting. I find that people are a bit daunted by choosing an instance, but really that’s not much different from choosing an email provider. Once you’re over that hurdle it seems about the same difficulty level as Twitter.
@JonathanMosen Yeah Jonathan that is the biggest problem my students have is figuring out this whole instance thing, having to look through them and find one they are interested in and they agree to the rules of etc. Using a client definitely does make this service somewhat easier after that.
Paul Campbell