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Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client

I would assume that while they're killing the official Twitter client, they'll continue on TweetDeck. They did buy it for $40 million. Would make no sense to kill it after paying that much for it.
 
OldSchoolMacGuy said:
I would assume that while they're killing the official Twitter client, they'll continue on TweetDeck. They did buy it for $40 million. Would make no sense to kill it after paying that much for it.
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Yep, and they just updated that one.
 
Do some of you people have any specific reason for hating Twitter? Or is it just blind ignorance that drives you to take to the airwaves and claim to hate something so passionately?

Believe it or not, breaking news and important news coverage gets broken on Twitter, and it's actually a fantastic way for the average person (most of us) to reach out to people with a lot more clout and grow their businesses, websites, fanbase, etc. It's not just for cursing and spewing random thoughts. There is actual substance.

Yes, there are stupid kids, ad bots, porn, etc/it's like everything else on the internet.
 
more and more people are using twitter I don't see how they are going down...

Twitter doesn't need to develop its own client as people do it good, and OS X already has deep twitter integration so I can see why they don't want to invest on that product anymore
 
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monkor said:
Do some of you people have any specific reason for hating Twitter? Or is it just blind ignorance that drives you to take to the airwaves and claim to hate something so passionately?

Believe it or not, breaking news and important news coverage gets broken on Twitter, and it's actually a fantastic way for the average person (most of us) to reach out to people with a lot more clout and grow their businesses, websites, fanbase, etc. It's not just for cursing and spewing random thoughts. There is actual substance.

Yes, there are stupid kids, ad bots, porn, etc/it's like everything else on the internet.
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So... you use it as a low-end RSS? I get all of my news either from apps or from RSS feeds. And I wouldn't be surprised if the apps took the RSS feeds anyway.
 
This type of scenario is exactly why I was against Apple incorporating Twitter & Facebook into iOS. It's as though Apple is desperate to add features to differentiate iOS from others.

Yet that's not needed, since iOS is already a proven success. Why does Apple seem to he running running scared? Acting erratically for absolutely no reason.
 
I use the app all the time. Its much faster than going through the website.

This is such a random decision.
 
faroZ06 said:
So... you use it as a low-end RSS? I get all of my news either from apps or from RSS feeds. And I wouldn't be surprised if the apps took the RSS feeds anyway.
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Well if you get your news from apps, then you're mostly (if not entirely) getting it from RSS feeds, you're right about that. I use Twitter for news as well (though not even close to as often as the Google News aggregator), but more often for up-to-the-minute coverage on an ongoing saga as it doesn't take nearly as long for a reporter to tweet, "The University of Maryland locked up a 5* recruit" as it does to write a well thought out piece.

Twitter provides the headline, RSS provides the analysis. They both compete, but they both benefit from one another I believe.
 
Twitter? Never heard of it. :p

Zuckerberg was smart, he knew Facebook wouldn't trade well once public but sold it so well to Apple and other companies that it's "too imbedded to fail". Zuckerberg will walk away from Facebook without a hit, leaving Apple and other companies with the check. How many core Apple app's have Facebook? Even OS X is now Facebook centric.

Twitter, I don't see it continuing to soar. It'll fly the way of the "Friendster" and "MySpace" dodo.
 
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Tweetdeck

I didn't see this posted, but Twitter owns TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com) and has put a lot of development into it recently to make it work really well with OS X, especially gestures. They released an updated version very recently.

http://www.tweetdeck.com

Maybe they thought there was no point in having 2 desktop mac clients when TweetDeck does so much more than the Twitter for Mac client.

When I was about to sign up as an advertiser, their sales guy at Twitter told me to download TweetDeck before anything else. Plus it is already available in the App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweetdeck/id485812721?mt=12 just like the old smaller Twitter Client was.

[edit]... and I just saw this same thought on page 4 this forum thread (didn't read that far). Hopefully I added some value.
 
striker33 said:
The quicker twitter dies the better.
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Why? I assume you don't even use it? Then what do you care if it lives or dies at all? And if you don't use it, why will it be "better" that it dies?

I don't understand...I personally don't use Facebook at all. Don't have an account. But I give it no thought really, and I certainly don't wish death upon it. It's just another service that I don't use. That's it.
 
monkor said:
Well if you get your news from apps, then you're mostly (if not entirely) getting it from RSS feeds, you're right about that. I use Twitter for news as well (though not even close to as often as the Google News aggregator), but more often for up-to-the-minute coverage on an ongoing saga as it doesn't take nearly as long for a reporter to tweet, "The University of Maryland locked up a 5* recruit" as it does to write a well thought out piece.

Twitter provides the headline, RSS provides the analysis. They both compete, but they both benefit from one another I believe.
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Don't the news apps provide breaking news though? When news occurs, it can sometimes go on TV immediately (if it is important), and I always see it on my iPhone at the same time.
 
ksgant said:
Why? I assume you don't even use it? Then what do you care if it lives or dies at all? And if you don't use it, why will it be "better" that it dies?

I don't understand...I personally don't use Facebook at all. Don't have an account. But I give it no thought really, and I certainly don't wish death upon it. It's just another service that I don't use. That's it.
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I don't use or plan to use Twitter, but I don't want it to die except so that I can say "I told you so!" to my friends, who seem to deny that social networking sites are bubbles. Essentially, I don't care.

Facebook, on the other hand, is making things inconvenient for me because I don't wish to use it, but others do use it, making communication more difficult. I always want the best standard to be the most popular, and the best is really email and AIM at the moment. Good thing my close friends are always available on AIM chat and that some people I know are leaving Facebook, which undermines the whole "universal information system" aspect of it. And I'd be fine with Google+ except that it doesn't work well with iChat or other Apple products. Both Google+ and Facebook work with iChat, but text-only.

Someone I know who has a similar opinion said that "Facebook is just a stupid thing that stupid people force us to use."
 
I have never used the actual twitter app the Mac. I use tweetdeck and twitterrific.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
People are wise not to speculate. Just the job listings alone should be a clue they are growing.

More than likely Apple is working with Twitter on advanced functionality via Services that allows more app collaboration with Twitter so continuing to extend functionality to a client app seems redundant.

Get it?
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I think you might be right.
 
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