To me this is like finding out you’re now required to access email entirely through a web browser.

What Twitter management seems to be missing is that many of its most influential users - including yours truly, yes - have been on the platform a long time and have a high tendency to be among those who not just use, but depend upon third-party clients. But they already have that: the overwhelming number of Twitter users use exactly those products to access the service. Twitter management obviously wants to steer people to their first-party mobile app and desktop website. (Twitter’s website doesn’t even support Safari’s desktop notification feature.) That’s just wacky. As far as I’m aware, once this comes to pass next month, there will be no way to receive notifications of Twitter DMs on a Mac. This antipathy to third-party clients is especially confounding considering that Twitter recently dropped support for their own native Mac client. We’veīeen waiting for more than a year and have had one reprieve. Provided a way for us to recreate the lost functionality. Many requests for clarification and guidance, Twitter has not

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This means two things for third-party apps: “Apps of a Feather” - a joint statement from the developers of several top third-party Twitter clients:Īfter August 16th, 2018, “streaming services” at Twitter willīe removed. The End of Third-Party Twitter Clients? Wednesday,

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