Our little app made a big dent on the world!”
It also pointed out that Ollie, Twitterrific’s bluebird mascot, “was so popular that it even prompted Twitter itself to later adopt a bluebird logo of their very own. It was the first desktop client, the first mobile client, one of the very first apps in the App Store, an Apple Design award winner, and it even helped redefine the word ‘tweet’ in the dictionary.” In its message, The Iconfactory said that since Twitterrific’s launch for desktop in 2007 - a year after Twitter’s arrival - Twitterrific “helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. Twitter hopes that those using the third-party apps will now move to the official app. It’s not clear what was behind the move, but many suspect new owner Elon Musk was unhappy that the apps didn’t carry Twitter’s ads, denting the company’s bottom line. Twitter added a new section saying that developers must not “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” Twitter stayed silent on the issue for days, but earlier this week tweeted that it was “enforcing its long-standing API rules,” a change that it said “may result in some apps not working.” The developer agreement on Twitter’s website appeared to make no mention of such rules, but on Thursday The decision to close Twitterrific comes a week after Twitter started preventing third-party Twitter clients - Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Echofon among them - from accessing its API, leaving users unable to log in to the apps.
In a message posted on its website on Thursday, The Iconfactory, Twitterrific’s developer, said: “We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter - a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer.” The maker of Twitterrific, a third-party Twitter app for macOS and iOS that launched in 2007 and came to the iPhone before Twitter itself, has been left with no choice but to close it down.
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