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Re: New improvements to Twitter for Mac

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Post by lukeman » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

farslan wrote: post #5

That's weird. They didn't publish any update since 2 years. Anyone thought it was really dead and Twitter made this in order let the user switch to twitter.com.

One interesting note: the deprecation of v1 of the API was going to force them to either remove the app or update it. During the blackout for unauth'd endpoints a few features (notably search) stopped working. I just checked and the new version is indeed hitting v1.1 of the API now.

Also noticed that the Develop section has somehow survived, which was an old Tweetie feature allowing you to change the Oauth tokens that are used: http://d.pr/i/HMjs

Re: New improvements to Twitter for Mac

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Post by JoshGlazebrook » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #22

I was a great fan of Twitter for Mac, but their stewardship of it was terrible. It was left in a prolonged state of abandonware, not even supporting Twitter's new picture hosting service for over a year after it was available. So no matter how cool or good it may be, they have some credibility to earn back before I let myself get attached. Meanwhile, I have cheerfully paid $20 for TweetBot, which has enjoyed ongoing…

I would have to agree. TweetBot is worth far more than $20 in terms of quality and usability. I just hope they don't turn out like Tweetie. The iOS app is phenomenal as well.

Re: New improvements to Twitter for Mac

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Post by subliminalbrad » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 10:54 PM UTC

Error: "unauthorized"

Welp, so much for that. :(

Re: New improvements to Twitter for Mac

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Post by Total_Meltdown » Thu, Apr 25, 2013, 11:24 PM UTC

eropple wrote: post #11

So, call me cynical (I have been called much worse), but my immediate reaction is to wonder whether I should upgrade--what Twitter has done to make it a worse experience for me to use. That seems to be the overarching MO for stuff like this. I mean, I'm using Twitteriffic right now anyway, but still, I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering if they've hosed yet another of their first-party apps, and that can't be a go…

I haven't used the official Twitter app in a long time, so my memory could be failing me, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing sponsored tweets even on the old version. I thought that was the reason I stopped using it.