To keep up with the Twitter circus, Shacknews has all the information you need. Tapbots is doing the same, and has shared its Ivory companion app for Mastodon. The app is free on the iOS App Store and includes a seven-day free trial, after which Tweetbot can be purchased by a monthly or yearly subscription. The update features new themes, a new Direct Message Interface, a new San Francisco font, and makes Tweetbot a subscription-based app. Tweetbot’s primary functionality was to improve the Twitter user experience by adding more customization and quality-of-life features.įollowing several of the changes that have come to Twitter under Elon Musk, several users have fled to other social media platforms. On January 26, 2021, Tapbots released Tweetbot 6 for iOS and iPad. Users first started to experience widespread issues earlier this week, in a tweet, the company stated that it was simply enforcing long-standing rules. Unfortunately, there is nothing Tweetbot (or any similar apps) can do to skirt Twitter’s rules about third-party apps using its API. We are very sorry to all of our customers who chose Tweetbot as their way to interact with Twitter’s service and we thank you so much for the many years of support and feedback. Tweetbot’s iPad app (2.99) still carries the old, pre-iOS 7. We’ve invested over 10 years building Tweetbot for Twitter and it was shut down in a blink of an eye. If you’re an iPad user, currently Twitterrific 5 is the only good Twitter client around. If you are not a Twitter die hard and need the notifications immediately, then I would go for it. Far better than Aviary (which is a buggy mess), and I enjoyed it a bit more than the official app. On January 12th, 2023, without warning, Elon Musk ordered his employees at Twitter to suspend access to 3rd party clients which instantly locked out hundreds of thousands of users from accessing Twitter from their favorite clients. I went through the trial on Tweetbot, and definitely has the best Twitter experience yet. And finally You can sync timeline on both apps using iCloud or Tweet Maker. In the tweet, the company thanks fans for sticking with the app over the last 12 years, and chalks the shutdown up to problems “beyond our control.” On the official Tweetbot website, the developer provides additional details on the platform’s demise. On Tweetbot you can change text size, or use system size, display full name, username or both, make the avatar round or square, you can show or disable the badge on profiles, you can change date format, and also you can change the theme from dark to light. Next, you will be able to browse tweets, followers, following, and lists. Once you install it, you will have to connect with your Twitter account. Tapbots, the developer of Tweetbot, shared a post to its Twitter account to share the unfortunate news about the app. How does Tweetbot 6 work As mentioned above, Tweetbot has an intuitive interface. Tweetbot’s developers have confirmed that the app is officially dead. Though users had been holding out hope that the app would be able to function again, that won’t be the case.

Among these apps was Tweetbot, one of the more popular Twitter companion apps. Earlier this week, Twitter began enforcing rules on its API that resulted in a significant portion of users losing access to long-standing third-party apps.

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