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Same thing is happening with Twitteriffic - I’m assuming Twitter’s API is down, or worse: the new owner has decided that 3rd party clients are not desirable anymore

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As Sean Heber, a Twitterific developer, posted it’s now a game of wait and see if this is policy or just an outage.

If it’s not an outage, I guess I expected more ceremony around this.

Elon's Twitter is the exact opposite of ceremony.

Maybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Tweetbot for Mastodon.

“You’re either with us or against us”.

Hahaha first I've heard this nickname.

My agua fresca would like a word with whoever came up with this.

I’m believe the full nickname is Melon Husk.

I wish Twitterific made a Mastodon client, its great UX compared to the official Twitter app is one of the major reasons I was still using Twitter.

And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.

The makers of Tweetbot are making a Mastodon client!

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/29/tapbots-ivory-mastodon-...

https://tapbots.com/ivory/ and they just released a roadmap :) looks very promising

maybe this is the culprit then

I'm looking forward to trying it when more Testflight spots open up, it will be a day one purchase when released.

They’ve said they expect to release publicly by the end of the month. I don’t Mastodon much, but the beta is my only client and slick to use.

That is a very sensible proactive move on the part of the team, they must have both been concerned about the future viability of third party twitter clients, and the potential of Mastodon as a new market. From what I've heard the Mastodon client they are building is very good, it's in closed beta right now.

I don't post to Twitter, but I still sometimes use Twitterrific to read it since not everybody I enjoy there has successfully moved to Mastodon.

(Although tbh it is only William Gibson, David Frum, and Grady Booch that keep me reading Twitter.)

I too thought the 'garch might have abruptly pulled the plug on the API. But then, I installed the Twitter iOS app and tried that, and it emitted a cascade of error screens, too.

So if I had to bet a dollar, I'd bet on "shit malfunctioning".

FWIW, William Gibson is on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@GreatDismal

I know, but (like a lot of people) he didn't end up posting there after signing up. Although Mastodon ended up being "about as good" for me (who just reads it when e.g. waiting in a line or something) as Twitter, there are these few people like him who made my Twitter feed something special who aren't really active on Mastodon.

(BTW indie dev world, I've paid money for years for Twitterrific and would definitely pay money for a client that did a reasonable job of showing me people I follow on various social brainfart networks, all in one place).

Hope this is a good old fashioned outage. However, after the “sent from” feature was recently removed, I have a hard time believing the owner has a positive opinion on the existence of the API. A shame how much it has been pared down already.

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