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uniquexoxo

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Aug 27, 2018
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Is it just me... or 3rd party clients of Twitter have gone almost unusable due to Twitter API restriction? I used to love Tweetbot, it’s my go-to app since it was launched but now key features are missing. Some Twitterific clients even had the audacity to switch to subscription...
 
Is it just me... or 3rd party clients of Twitter have gone almost unusable due to Twitter API restriction? I used to love Tweetbot, it’s my go-to app since it was launched but now key features are missing. Some Twitterific clients even had the audacity to switch to subscription...

I am not sure what I am missing, but I use Tweetbot mainly to curate my own news feed. I did notice that I can’t seem to DM someone via Tweetbot, but otherwise, I still prefer the UI and lack of ads.
 
This is true. Twitter is shutting down APIs. They want uniformed experience everywhere.
 
I am not sure what I am missing, but I use Tweetbot mainly to curate my own news feed. I did notice that I can’t seem to DM someone via Tweetbot, but otherwise, I still prefer the UI and lack of ads.

Missing:
DMs
Group DMs
Polls
Suggested tweets (keeps me in the loop of what’s happening)
People who liked my tweet
People who RTd my tweet
Notifications for like, quote RT, RT, follow
 
Missing:
DMs
Group DMs
Polls
Suggested tweets (keeps me in the loop of what’s happening)
People who liked my tweet
People who RTd my tweet
Notifications for like, quote RT, RT, follow

Figures. I don’t post on twitter, and really use it just to keep track of some news outlets and celebrities. I don’t use the features you mentioned, which explains why I haven’t missed them.
 
To be honest the official twitter app is really good now across all platforms that I’m on. So I don’t even consider other twitter clients anymore.
 
To be honest the official twitter app is really good now across all platforms that I’m on. So I don’t even consider other twitter clients anymore.
I would use the official twitter app too but it’s always annoying to see whole conversations in my timeline (when someone is answering I see the first tweet of this conversation in my timeline too).

And the mute filter doesn’t work that good like on Tweetbot. If I want to mute a word like „Corona“, it still shows me tweets with the word „Coronavirus“. Not in Tweetbot.

In Tweetbot I can set small image previews in my timeline. In Twitter they are big or disabled.
 
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