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Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client

Mac Kiwi said:
Could Apple have some kind of Twitter idea of their own brewing in the background, which Twitter have somehow heard about?
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If they have, it'll fail as Apple sucks at online social stuff.

Apple tried to buy Twitter and failed. Sure they have a partnership, but that'll be as far as it goes. I dont think we need another Ping dumped on us, do we ;)
 
xAnthony said:
Your ignorance makes me laugh. Twitter is a wonderful thing, and a great way to make money. I make $200+ a week on Twitter and I basically do nothing... Post tweets and have my followers click on links... Pretty simple and I'm getting paid to do it. I wouldn't consider that a waste of time. I also just started two months ago, and as my Twitter followers grow, that weekly paycheck (More of a payment to my PayPal account) will increase. My Twitter link is in my signature if you don't believe me... I would never consider it a full time job as we all know it won't be there forever... But the extra money along with my regular paycheck has been quite awesome.

Twitter is a growing sensation, and there's lots of money to be made with it... At least until Twitter drives themselves into the ground.
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well good for you. But you have no idea who I am, so don't you dare call me ignorant.

I did mention it was useful for obtaining news. However, people's generalized thoughts on what they're doing on a second-by-second basis is useless.
 
Someone probably has mentioned this, But you have the built in twitter client for sending. But they also have tweetdeck in the app store, which i thought they bought a while back.
 
Longtime Twitter user here, both on the Mac and iPhone.

Two thoughts on this; first - there's another app coming to replace the original client, or Twitter support will be added directly to OS X. Not all Twitter users want to use the Web Browser version - I like having the separate client I can just leave running...

Second - if it is perceived that Twitter is giving up on OS X (I can't see it really, but...) this may then users accessing the service *less*; worst case, if I had to open a web browser each time I wanted to check Twitter, I'd probably use it less. And then I'd be inclined maybe to use it less on the iPhone also...

Of course, the "official" client still works, but for how long?
 
rmwebs said:
If they have, it'll fail as Apple sucks at online social stuff.

Apple tried to buy Twitter and failed. Sure they have a partnership, but that'll be as far as it goes. I dont think we need another Ping dumped on us, do we ;)
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Excellent post!

Apple is on a massive ego driven high... Mucking up cloud services ie: iCloud, failing at social yet doing who knows what "behind the scenes" presently, and on and on it goes.

A well proven fact is no company can be all things to all people. Yet on a roll via the iPhone Cash Cow, Apple feels invincible.

Spewing venom, the "mission of revenge" left by Steve Jobs, Apple's got years of lawsuits and all the money they'll ever need to attack any company who dare whisper a negative word towards them.

Apples proven track record of excellent products now being sullied by Apple themselves is tragic. A high flying company being so petty.

The style & class once a hallmark of Apple, is now but a memory.
 
Yet again a perfect example of how to destroy a company part 1.

It's all down hill from now folks....all the clients wont work anymore and it'll be down to web based tweets......and then Microsoft will by it and rename it Bing"o"





Truly cannot get round the logic of this decision....some idiot round a table who shouldn't be there
 
ixodes said:
Excellent post!

Apple is on a massive ego driven high... Mucking up cloud services ie: iCloud, failing at social yet doing who knows what "behind the scenes" presently, and on and on it goes.

A well proven fact is no company can be all things to all people. Yet on a roll via the iPhone Cash Cow, Apple feels invincible.

Spewing venom, the "mission of revenge" left by Steve Jobs, Apple's got years of lawsuits and all the money they'll ever need to attack any company who dare whisper a negative word towards them.

Apples proven track record of excellent products now being sullied by Apple themselves is tragic. A high flying company being so petty.

The style & class once a hallmark of Apple, is now but a memory.
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You sound really frustrated and sad.
 
nikhsub1 said:
I don't even use twitter. Maybe I'm the last one?
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I'm with you, so you aren't the last one.

I wonder if this is a sign that Apple is planning deeper integration directly into OSX, which would potentially eliminate the need for the separate app.
 
In a few years twitter will only being used as a toy.

Goodbuy bird and fly:)
 
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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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What I hate about twitter is that the interesting-to-crap ratio is about 1 to 99.

As opposed to Facebook where it is about 50:50.

Every time I subscribe to a twitter feed for a company I'm interested in, they're constantly bombarding it with stupid replies to specific users, announcements of minor events, not just major product releases or key information. I don't have time to sift through all that ****.

For some reason, even companies I 'like' on Facebook have the common sense to keep their updates to once a week or so, as opposed to 20 times a day on Twitter.
 
Skika said:
You sound really frustrated and sad.
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Quite the contrary. Just reporting observations, I don't live within the confines of Apples walled garden. That's why my view is so clear.

In addition when one owns fine new phones like my Galaxy S III, and my HTC One X, it's an eye opener that makes you understand just how nice up to date smartphones can be.
 
Frisco said:
Maybe because 99 percent of the World is on Windows :confused:
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Agreed. I don't use twitter but there's a vast majority of users, and yup, they be Windows users.
To me unimportant, but overall I think it's an indication of a popular software disappearing (eventually) from the Mac platform. Others could eventually follow suit.
 
The app itself today is basically a rebranded tweetie, maybe they want to release a whole new app more inline with their updated style/version.
 
I don't blame them. Apple are appalling when it comes to support for non Apple applications and hardware. Apple seam to believe they can do it all themselves when the fact is they cannot. I have a retina Mac and I'm finding it full of holes with a poor OS integration for the high res display.

If Apple continue feeding the market with hardware that forces a rewrite on software, this will become a popular trend for software companies to follow suit.

Look at the advancements on android over iOS in the past 6 months. It's clear Apple will not thrive with this "own it all mentality". But they only have themselves to blame.
 
It was originally called Tweetie and was the best Twitter app for the iPhone by a mile.
And correct, the guy who wrote it sold it and started working for Twitter - and for me that was as a client it went rapidly downhill.

Stuff like not being able to quote a retweet (which has since been changed), sponsored tweets and trends make the user experience awful.

As I said in a previous post, the only decent Twitter client out there is TweetBot which is on iOS and coming soon to OSX and syncs between devices via iCloud
http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/
 
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