No ads, less functionality and a track record of feeding customers BS support claims. I've subbed for one year just to give them a chance but every fibre of my being is against this.
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And you can continue supporting the developer for the price of a Big Mac and a Coke once a year!
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Paul can be a sook when it comes to criticism. He's very precious about his work and seems to take it all personally.
Subscription price per year costs less than a brand new version of the app.
What a coinsidence that I literally deleted my Twitter account today. Was using Tweetbot but it’s not worth the subscription. Twitter is a swamp anyway.
I think he just doesn't like people asking for support on his personal account. He has occasionally mentioned that in the past. It's likely not personal, and you're probably not blocked on @tweetbot and @tapbots.
Honest question: What is so special about Twitter, that information (apart from all the verbal diarrhea) can't be found elsewhere?
Twitter has gimped the thirty party apps to the point where I can’t justify spending money on what is basically three quarters of a Twitter client.
It is the best social media app to be honest! Facebook, Instagram and others contain much ads
I tipped double of that Tweetbot price on a free app yesterday. If you don't need or want to use it, then don't.
When the subscription price is changed, existing customers must confirm and accept higher price. That tends to churn customers, so developers generally grandfather and honor existing customers to original subscription price.
While I don't think Tweetbot 6 subscription price will be changing in the near future, subscribing now will probably lock you into lowest rate of $5.99/year.
I bought the yearly subscription straight away. I’ve used the app for years and want to support the developers. Happy to pay for smithing that I use everyday!
How does Twitter make money with these clients? They are not displaying ads nor collecting data, maybe?! Surely they prefer their own app.
Either way, Twitter is as dead as MySpace. Its too convuluted, ugly, toxic place, with a lot of agenda, ads, and businesses. Its not a social platform. I know people call it a right wing or whatever, but if you go to Gab.com just see how clean and SOCIAL it is and ignore the the difference POV they have over there over yours. Maybe its clean because the SPAM bots and businesses have not set up camp over there yet, just like the old Twitter.
Twitter is no longer as fun as it used to be, more like a FB feed I guess, everything in one place in all sizes.
EDIT: its no use, it doesn't have the live search thing, you have to type things exactly to find them
I don't pay for SAAS, but putting that way meaning paying to take down ads sounds reasonable enough and $6 is too low.
Either way, Twitter is as dead as MySpace. Its too convuluted, ugly, toxic place, with a lot of agenda, ads, and businesses. Its not a social platform. I know people call it a right wing or whatever, but if you go to Gab.com just see how clean and SOCIAL it is and ignore the the difference POV they have over there over yours. Maybe its clean because the SPAM bots and businesses have not set up camp over there yet, just like the old Twitter.
Twitter is no longer as fun as it used to be, more like a FB feed I guess, everything in one place in all sizes.
EDIT: its no use, it doesn't have the live search thing, you have to type things exactly to find them
I don't pay for SAAS, but putting that way meaning paying to take down ads sounds reasonable enough and $6 is too low.
Same. I recently sprung for their $10 annual sub. But probably will wind up going for Tweetbot as well. Devs like all these need to be supported.
Maybe they will offer an upgrade option after they release the new version of macOS? At least, I'm hard to believe that $6 will include the macOS version.
I had to quit following him. Felt like sour grapes 🍇 all the time.
A developer isn’t forever if they can’t make money to sustain themselves and the development and update of their products.
This is a really important point.
I like Paul and his products, but if I'm being honest, they've not been super "on it" with updates over time and I really hesitate strongly to get into a subscription situation with that type of developer.
Maybe I'll watch it for a few months and see how it goes, but I'm out for now at least.
Agree big time with this. Twitterrific really had a nice value add with their theme options, something most indie apps have started to embrace. Took Tweetbot until this release to do that. TB is just rock solid stable, but Twitterrific has been beating them in the clever features department.
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Just to add on to that above -- Paul didn't help matters by releasing v6 with so little changed and promising things in the future...but finding time to make sure that subscription part made it into release of course! lol
When you have the MacStories guys calling you out (for anything at all), you've made a misstep.
MacStories is very pro Apple, pro Dev, pro Indie - on and on.
It takes a mistake to find a way even remotely into the doghouse with them in a review.
Just to add on to that above -- Paul didn't help matters by releasing v6 with so little changed and promising things in the future...but finding time to make sure that subscription part made it into release of course! lol
When you have the MacStories guys calling you out (for anything at all), you've made a misstep.
MacStories is very pro Apple, pro Dev, pro Indie - on and on.
It takes a mistake to find a way even remotely into the doghouse with them in a review.
6 USD per year is not expensive, but what really concerns me is how the team will do with the macOS client. Another subscription or universal? It’s not explained.
Twitter is not free— ads pay for it. Anyway if you feel that you have seen only useless and toxic contents on Twitter, you should check whom you follow.
Twitter is not free— ads pay for it. Anyway if you feel that you have seen only useless and toxic contents on Twitter, you should check whom you follow.
I was thinking that very same thing about the MacStories review. They want to give credit to good indie apps, and they definitely do. I felt slightly proud of them that they deigned to slightly call out the lack of progression in Tweetbot over recent years. It should be pointed out, but also not outweigh the app's continued solid performance and reliability.
Here's hoping that the app goes Universal in a year or so.
It’s not about information. It’s about addiction to “likes,” sitting in an echo chamber of your choice and being able to anonymously “own” and insult other people.
Twitter is a cesspool.