John SiracusaMar 1, 2023
If you were a Twitterrific or Tweetbot user, you should download the latest versions of those apps from the App Store and launch them. Here’s why: https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific_face_the_cliff
Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff

There is something noble about two longtime rivals — competitors, yes, but with nothing but deep respect and camaraderie for each other — facing this terrible cliff together, with dignity and grace, considering their users first, as ever.

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Show threadBernd KilgaMar 2, 2023

@siracusa I cannot stress enough how important it is to do this step, even if you've been super close to the end of a subscription.

In my case there's only 3 days between the end of my Tweetbot subscription and the start of the Ivory one. Perfect I thought, that will just round to zero, right? But @tapbots would still need to refund me 21 days because it counts from the Bird cut off date.

Nothing but noble that this is opt-in. But man, subscriptions are high risk for devs.

Show threadRichard2001Mar 2, 2023
@console @siracusa @tapbots Re: subscriptions as high-risk, maybe I’m missing something but isn’t this particular type of scenario extremely rare or perhaps even totally unprecedented? I can’t think of any other case that’s even remotely close to this situation, meaning a platform owner cutting off its partners no upfront warning or transition period.
Show threadcharlesesmith
@Richard2001 @console @siracusa @tapbots This is what I came to say. You can find single-person shops that are facing bankruptcy that still would have provided a proper sunset period. The idea of --anyone-- the scale of twitter just wordlessly cutting off an API entirely is wild. im guessing we’d have to go to the dotcom bubble to find something similar.
Mar 2, 2023 at 9:47pmIvory for Mac