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Twitter Reportedly Discontinuing Development of Official Twitter for Mac Client

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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.
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The funny thing is that windows was completely ready for this in Vista and had scaling of apps even to non regular sizes like 125% 150%, 200% or even a custom value between those. It also didn't require you to rewrite your app or recompile it. It works with existing apps. Problem is apple never planned for resolution changes when they designed both OS X and iOS so its now tacked on after the fact and is more of a bandaid solution than a proper implementation. Android, Windows vista, 7, and 8 and XP/2000 to a degree have dpi scaling natively.
 
Market share arguments often to ignore the context of the story. How many business machines, server farms, public/private institution machines running Windows are used for tweeting I wonder? I would guess that OS X accounts for a much larger share than the % of total machines in use, especially when you consider that Apple focuses on mostly consumers / home users nowadays.

Not that I think this decision is about desktop OS market share anyway.
 
xAnthony said:
Advertising. My main source of income is through "MyLikes"... I've tried other websites but that seems to be the best one, at least for me. SponsoredTweets is another good one. Tons of people just tweet out any type of ad and hope people will click on their links but that's just not how it works. Targeted advertising will make you the most money. It's so simple, yet it amazes me how many people don't take advantage of it. You'd be surprised what companies will pay for just one click to their website.


I just find it hilarious when someone says Twitter is a waste of time, and yet they have 400+ posts on a forum... The irony is hilarious.
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but a forum is a discussion (or least that's the point) from what I see from twitter it's either people spewing useless information about their lunch or ads.

I guess My failure with twitter is the pure failure in it's philosophy, if everyone is standing on a soapbox, is anyone really being heard?
 
Frisco said:
Maybe because 99 percent of the World is on Windows :confused:
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I'd hate the see a visual of you pulling that figure out of where it came from. Also while you're being either incoherent or disingenuous do yourself a favor and actually read what the article is about, the iPhone, next, I know this may be hard, it will take some research and not an asinine kneejerk reaction, go ahead, find what the most popular OS is for smart phones is? It's not Windows. And it's not iOS, but guess what is second, iOS. Now look to see where Windows is. Good good, see you're LEARNING! Amazing.

Now that you have a clue perhaps you can add to the conversations something coherent, or just keep on being a useless troll.

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macplay said:
In a few years twitter will only being used as a toy.

Goodbuy bird and fly:)
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It is already a toy, it's narcissism in an app. Basically, and I've said this for years, the only reason Twitter is popular is because masturbating in public is illegal.

For those of you too dense to get it, Twitter is to conversation what talking to a wall is in an argument. It's just a me me me drivel which is typical for the spoiled youth in America as a way of doing the "look at meeeeEEE" but it rarely to ever produces anything meaningful... again, it's just whacking off 140 characters at at time.
 
It is already a toy, it's narcissism in an app. Basically, and I've said this for years, the only reason Twitter is popular is because masturbating in public is illegal.

For those of you too dense to get it, Twitter is to conversation what talking to a wall is in an argument. It's just a me me me drivel which is typical for the spoiled youth in America as a way of doing the "look at meeeeEEE" but it rarely to ever produces anything meaningful... again, it's just whacking off 140 characters at at time.
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I disagree. I think your description is more applicable to Facebook than Twitter.

For me, Twitter is more like an RSS reader. I follow the people/stories I like, and I can pull up the app and flick through it quickly to get straight to the point. It gives me a way to share something interesting I may find easily (by retweeting it.)



But they sure do seem to be doing their best to drive the service into the ground, lately.
 
bigjobby said:
Maybe Twitter want all their users to migrate over to TweetDeck (which really went downhill after the Twitter takeover).
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I tried Tweetdeck. As soon as I found I couldn't resize the app down to a compact form like Twitter.app, I trashed it.

Also, Tweetdeck REALLY feels like a "web app framed in a window". The way the UI looks and responds feels like a Safari web view. I wouldn't be surprised if it's entirely server-side.

Twitter.app is an excellent app. I can't fathom why they'd stop development on it. The very least they can do is make it retina-enabled!
 
Nebulance said:
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.
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And you spending time on a forum would not be considered a waste of time? Your first post was you generalizing your thoughts about Twitter... Which most people could consider being useless. (As is this post here)

You can't sit there and tell me something is a waste of time (or useless) when you spend time posting on a forum.
 
This move doesn't make any sense.

Didn't Twitter recently announce that they were going to limit third party applications? Limiting third party tokens, and all that. That move made me think that Twitter wanted to drive everyone to the native Twitter clients.

But now Twitter is announcing that they will no longer develop their Mac client software.

This doesn't make sense. If you can't use a 3rd party client to access Twitter, and Twitter is shutting down their own client --- how will anyone use/read Twitter??

Someone fill in the gap for me because I am not understanding what they are up to.
 
xAnthony said:
And you spending time on a forum would not be considered a waste of time? Your first post was you generalizing your thoughts about Twitter... Which most people could consider being useless. (As is this post here)

You can't sit there and tell me something is a waste of time (or useless) when you spend time posting on a forum.
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to that end, we're all wasting time, aren't we?
 
Nebulance said:
to that end, we're all wasting time, aren't we?
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We are. Some play video games, others post on Twitter or Facebook... We waste time reading & posting on a forum... But hey, as long as you're having fun with what you're doing, I wouldn't consider it a waste of time.

That's the only point I was trying to make. People spend their time doing things they enjoy. If Twitter is what they enjoy, so be it.
 
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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The least they could do is update the UI and icon to use the new logo.
 
nikhsub1 said:
I don't even use twitter. Maybe I'm the last one?
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Blah blah blah #kimkardashian blah blah blah #tastysandwich.

That's what you're missing. I just don't get the appeal of twitter's ramblings, at all. And the more people use it, the less they seem capable of composing a complete sentence. :rolleyes:
 
This sucks. I use the Twitter for Mac client all day long. Why discontinue it? Is there something else othe horizon, or do they think an HTML 5 version could be better going forward?
 
I actually prefer the official Twitter client for Mac - sits unobtrusively in the menu bar, clean and simple GUI with one-click switching between accounts. I joined Twitter for its brevity so I'm happy to keep the current arrangement - TweetDeck is too much.
 
Wrong move

In my opinion and for what I use and need, the Twitter app for OSX is the best twitter app there is!

Firstly, I can make the font size BIG ENOUGH to read. Tweet Deck does not even have font resizing. A major and bizarre fail.

Also, I prefer the black text on white back ground and other interface design decisions found in the Twitter app.

I was actually very much looking forward to an update to this app! I really wanted columns for each of my Lists. So I could monitor tweets coming in for people versus all the rest or specific things I have lists of. Like one for local business tweets, design, books, deals, photography, etc. (I have 20 lists of tweets I get.)
 
blackhand1001 said:
The funny thing is that windows was completely ready for this in Vista and had scaling of apps even to non regular sizes like 125% 150%, 200% or even a custom value between those. It also didn't require you to rewrite your app or recompile it. It works with existing apps. Problem is apple never planned for resolution changes when they designed both OS X and iOS so its now tacked on after the fact and is more of a bandaid solution than a proper implementation. Android, Windows vista, 7, and 8 and XP/2000 to a degree have dpi scaling natively.
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This is very valid. I much prefer OSX to windows, but I cannot help feeling that Apple's plans were not as well thought out as bragged by the marketing hype. After looking at the last release of Android jelly bean on the latest Samsung hardware, leaves me feeling like IOS is also lacking some really exciting features which I would use daily. On mobile I'm happy to make that switch, but windows 8 looks like a horror show. I think I would rather look at Linux.
 
Unless one is obsessed with constant tweets a Mac twitter app is becoming useless really. There ar so many out there. Why should twitter keep making different versions.
 
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