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That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie, and have since begun shunning third party developers. In short, the official apps were third party apps, and now no one wants to make any additional Twitter apps because Twitter has become hostile to developers. They've closed the door on third party inovation for their platform.

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> like the TweetDeck and Tweetie

Don't you mean Tweetbot or something? Tweetie was bought by Twitter, rebranded to be the official Twitter client, and in no small part gutted and left to rot (gutted for the mobile version, left to rot for the desktop one).

>> That's because they bought the cool third party apps like the TweetDeck and Tweetie

>Tweetie was bought by Twitter

That's what they said. I think you misread that post.

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