Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
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Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
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Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#2I, for one, am very much looking forward to the eventual release of an 'AppBot' client, or whatever they end up calling it.
I may sound like a broken record, but I am incredibly disappointed in Twitter's behavior, especially given the great disparity in the feature sets of TweetBot and the official Twitter iOS client. (and don't get me started on the state of Twitter clients for Android...)
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#3Too bad they don't let a developer just kill an "app" and all its associated tokens. So Tweetbot could have a "Tweetbot Mac Alpha" app and then when they were done with the alpha, they could reclaim all those tokens.
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#4Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients", and thus start streaming ads down peoples throats (oh, sorry - "Richer stories" is apparently the nuspeak). I'm not sure they're yet in a position to dictate this, especially given how bad their own clients are compared to some other options.
The interesting thing about Twitter compared to e.g. Facebook is that the social graph is very weak. I (and in anecdata, many people I know) use it to follow some "big names", and a splattering of smaller names, for broadcast information. I occasionally send something out, but it's not a strong set of connections. The network effect is thus minimal; migrating over to app.net would be easy, as I'm not that bothered that I have exactly the same followers/followees. When the pain of the service outweighs it's smallish value, I'll just jump ship.
Even more people out there are just passive followers of celebrity names. Facebook or similar could launch a "Flitter" that did everything they wanted, and get a mass migration pretty easily - once people get annoyed enough to start looking around. If Twitter continue on this path, that threshold will be reached much sooner than I originally expected.
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#5Site took forever to load for me. Copy-pasted the contents here: http://pastebin.com/wRwW6BZN
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#6Too bad they don't let a developer just kill an "app" and all its associated tokens. So Tweetbot could have a "Tweetbot Mac Alpha" app and then when they were done with the alpha, they could reclaim all those tokens.
While not ideal, they could register a new Twitter app for the released, for sale version of Tweetbot. Everyone would have to reconnect to that app (just as they originally had to do on the beta), but it should get around the issue as the new app would have zero used tokens.
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#7Love Tweetbot, but why can't they just register a separate application token/secret for the alpha and change it when it goes gold?
Just because it wouldn't generate any media attention or am I missing something?
Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#8Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients", and thus start streaming ads down peoples throats (oh, sorry - "Richer stories" is apparently the nuspeak). I'm not sure they're yet in a position to dictate this, especially given how bad their own clients are compared to some other options. The interesting thing about Twitter compared to e.g. Facebook is that the social graph…
"Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients"
Isn't it more: No more free data for 3rd party clients? (past a certain amount) Companies can still buy unlimited realtime data through twitter's monitization child DataSift. Meaning the death of free 3rd party apps. Maybe now that they have to charge a good chunk we will get better 3rd party apps?
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Re: Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?
#10I'm getting really tired of this. Anybody looked into tent.io? That looks promising!