Comment by kevinflo | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kevinflo | Hacker News Reader

Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh.

That said, I may buy it. I know of no other single column mac native twitter client that is retina ready. Seeing as the twitter token limit is discouraging devs from creating new clients, it may be best to fork over the 20 bucks before the token limit for tweetbot is hit.

I really just wish tweetdeck would allow for a single column layout. I keep twitter open on the right side of my screen 24/7 like a news ticker, so single column is a necessity. Tweetdeck is the only app they're maintaining and it doesn't allow for that.

Edit: Scratch that, give https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yorufukurou/id428834068?mt=1... a try

Yikes... even given the fact that the price is justified by the circumstances, $20 for a twitter client is pretty harsh.

I have to admit blinking twice my eyes. On the other hand, if we don't want too many Sparrow episodes, developers should be compensated enough.

They won't be compensated too much though because Twitter has made auth tokens arbitrarily scarce. AFAIK they have a cap of 100,000 customers for the lifetime of the product which means they're limited to $2M in revenue on this (less Apple's fees, so $1.4M and any returns would most likely still count against tokens but offer no revenue). It's not super lucrative, if they hadn't already started when Twitter announced its plans I don't think they would have made it.

Thanks for this comment, it prompted me to read up more about Twitter's new policy for auth tokens. I had seen some headlines passing by, but didn't bother to read them. Anyway, then indeed it makes much sense for Tapbots to get the most out of relatively limited quantities.

I guess that this also makes a strong point for App.net: users won't be bothered with apps and growth of the third-party ecosystem isn't artificially restricted.

Blame Twitter for making user tokens a scarce resource.

Twitterrific was retina-ready before the retina MBP even came out.

And unified timeline!

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