They Made It Big on Twitter a Decade Ago. Now They’re Fighting It.
The sudden death and rebirth of Tweetbot
When Twitter shut off API access, third-party apps were left high and dry. One app chose to pivot to become a Mastodon app.
Tweetbot and Twitterrific updated with option to opt-out of subscription refund
When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for t…
The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today
The company has lost a major source of inspiration.
Third-party Twitter app makers turn their attention to Mastodon
Of course, all these third-party apps will still have to compete with Mastodon's own app, which has been seeing its own improvements.
Beyond Doom Scrolling: Getting More Out of Twitter
Tweetbot 7.1 Adds Background Notifications for Follows, Quotes, and User Tweets
We’ve been keeping an eye on Tapbots’ rapid development pace for Tweetbot on iPhone and iPad over the past few months (we gave Tweetbot 6 a MacStories Selects award in December), and I continue to be impressed by how Tweetbot is growing and adding new features thanks to its new business model and Twitter’s new
Tweetbot 7 Adds Back the App’s Stats View and Includes New Themes
Over three years ago, Tweetbot removed the app’s stats view as a result of Twitter API changes. Today, that view is back in Tweetbot 7 for the iPhone and iPad, thanks to the social media company’s increased willingness to open its platform to third-party developers like Tapbots. The view includes a graph at the top,
Tweetbot for iOS gets first update of 2022 with new widgets, themes, and more
Tweetbot is releasing today version 6.8 of its app. In this update, the Twitter client is receiving its first big update in 2022.
Tweetbot 6.6 Gets Support for Creating Polls, Limiting Who Can Reply to Tweets
For the past two months, I’ve been using Tweetbot as my primary Twitter client again. This started off as an experiment to see whether switching to a third-party client with timeline sync would improve my daily use of Twitter, allowing me to miss fewer tweets and catch up on my timeline (I’ve always been a
Tweetbot 3.5: iPhone 6 Support, Interactive Notifications, and iOS 8 Extensions - MacStories
For the past two months, I’ve been switching back and forth between Tweetbot and Twitter’s official app for iOS in a personal quest to understand what’s the best Twitter client for me today. Tweetbot 3.5, available today on the App Store, has given me the biggest incentive to keep using Tapbots’ app yet: integration with