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Twitter Discontinues Twitter for Mac App
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Evidence is to the contrary. Apple installed base continues to surge, now over 1.3 BILLION, up 30 % in just two years, consisting of new purchasers and switchers from Android. App Store revenue is far from leveling off, and continues to surge. Strong growth trend in installed base along with new AR technology just coming on line with installed base of AR compatible phones about to surge by hundreds of millions of phones in the next two years bodes well for continued revenue.
Services as a whole, already multi-platform in Music, is growing at tremendous pace and has huge growth potential (is already the equivalent of a Fortune 100 company and the revenue from services in just one quarter now dwarfs all of Facebook.). Apple is dominating new markets it enters, that have huge growth potential, e.g.,wearables with Apple Watch and AirPods, and Apple Pay, while maintaining market domination in phones, tablets, all in ones, etc.
Apple has no interest in targeting Windows/Android users, other than getting them to switch, in most areas as there are no profits, e.g., smart phones where Apple already has 90% of profits. Making Apple Music multi-platform made sense to Apple as it was easy to do and each user brings in a net profit.
It's better designed but it's restricted to the public API, which only gives a subset of search results and conversation threads get broken with replies going missing, sometimes in as little as 3 days.
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I’m not sure I trust a third party app with my data and having to pay for it doesn’t make me feel better.
First you need know how:
1- SSL/TLS works https://www.digicert.com/ssl/
2- API works https://blogs.mulesoft.com/biz/tech-ramblings-biz/what-are-apis-how-do-apis-work/
2a- https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/api-reference-index
Then go back here and you will understand CerebralX quote.
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Not surprised. They killed the Twitter app on the Watch last year too for really no good reason. It was useful to see what was trending with a few quick taps. I never downloaded the Mac app and now glad I never did. Wouldn't pay money for a Twitter app on iOS or MacOS when the official app is free and good enough as is the website itself.
I already bought Tweetbot. It's not like I had much of a choice.
I'm missing a few features though for which Twitter doesn't offer any APIs.
...and group chats and moments and probably a few other things I haven't noticed yet.
I don’t care about those things, I only care about the tweets from the people I follow on my timeline. I meant polls is the only thing I’ll be missing on my timeline.
Unsurprising. Last time I checked they still didn't support more than 140 characters in a Tweet. Clearly they were letting it slide.
I've switched to Twitterrific on all devices. It's still lacking some features, but it's way better than the finally officially abandoned Twitter app.
I've switched to Twitterrific on all devices. It's still lacking some features, but it's way better than the finally officially abandoned Twitter app.
I wonder how long the Tweetdeck app will be around for, in that case? https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
As it's already been converted to a web app, I would imagine it's going to be staying.
As it's already been converted to a web app, I would imagine it's going to be staying.
They’ve been making quite a few cosmetic changes to it recently, so I’d imagine it’s still going to be supported.
Good riddance. Twitter is a libertarian troll box for extremists and sock puppets. Now and then celebrities break up the hostile atmosphere with comedy relief or popular hashtags, but if celebs and CEOs really care about human rights and environmental causes they should dump Twitter, make it clear why, and never look back.
It's actually quite easy to keep away from all that angry **** if you want. Depends entirely on who you follow or mute.
Can be, but then you would have to become a citizen disconnected from political discourse and modern events. It's bad enough social media is causing politicians to become disconnected from reality.
Better to go back to old school hard journalism and stop giving crazy people and trolls a megaphone.
I find Twitter to be a great way to follow Sports and news about my favorite teams.
Following beat reporters gives news on NFL, college football and baseball, things I enjoy
And fans of the teams can interact with each other in ways they wouldn't otherwise
It doesn't have to be all about politics, politicians and celebrities (or even cat videos)
Follow who and what interests you and discard the rest
Following beat reporters gives news on NFL, college football and baseball, things I enjoy
And fans of the teams can interact with each other in ways they wouldn't otherwise
It doesn't have to be all about politics, politicians and celebrities (or even cat videos)
Follow who and what interests you and discard the rest
I think this says more about the state of Twitter than it does the state of the Mac at this point
I don't understand why Twitter seems to be against desktop apps.
Desktop apps like Tweetbot let you have an efficiently sized Twitter window on your screen at all times, so you can see updates as they come in. A tab in your browser tends to get ignored more.
Right now Tweetbot lives on the right side of my screen. I'd probably engage with Twitter less if I didn't have a dedicated app.
Desktop apps like Tweetbot let you have an efficiently sized Twitter window on your screen at all times, so you can see updates as they come in. A tab in your browser tends to get ignored more.
Right now Tweetbot lives on the right side of my screen. I'd probably engage with Twitter less if I didn't have a dedicated app.