

Tapbots is doing the same, and has shared its Ivory companion app for Mastodon. Tweetbot’s primary functionality was to improve the Twitter user experience by adding more customization and quality-of-life features.įollowing several of the changes that have come to Twitter under Elon Musk, several users have fled to other social media platforms. In a post on Twitter, the company writes that it’s enforcing its. Users first started to experience widespread issues earlier this week, in a tweet, the company stated that it was simply enforcing long-standing rules. Twitter confirmed that it’s purposefully blocking third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific following days of silence. Unfortunately, there is nothing Tweetbot (or any similar apps) can do to skirt Twitter’s rules about third-party apps using its API. This means that some key features of third-party Twitter apps such as Tweetbot, Twitterific. Tapbots has shut down work on Tweetbot, one of the more popular iOS apps, as Twitter rendered it non-functional 'in a blink of an eye.' The developer is instead pivoting to Ivory, an app for the. We are very sorry to all of our customers who chose Tweetbot as their way to interact with Twitter’s service and we thank you so much for the many years of support and feedback. Twitter is no longer allowing developers to access its old APIs. While definitely not as clean-looking or simple as the official Twitter app, Tweetbot for iPhone (2.99) offers a wide array of options, which are relatively easy to manage thanks to an. We’ve invested over 10 years building Tweetbot for Twitter and it was shut down in a blink of an eye. Twitter users are able to post their tweets from from. On January 12th, 2023, without warning, Elon Musk ordered his employees at Twitter to suspend access to 3rd party clients which instantly locked out hundreds of thousands of users from accessing Twitter from their favorite clients. Twitter is a microblog which allows users to publish short messages of 280 characters of less. In the tweet, the company thanks fans for sticking with the app over the last 12 years, and chalks the shutdown up to problems “beyond our control.” On the official Tweetbot website, the developer provides additional details on the platform’s demise.

Tapbots, the developer of Tweetbot, shared a post to its Twitter account to share the unfortunate news about the app. This meant the end of popular services like Tweetbot and Twitterific.
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Tweetbot’s developers have confirmed that the app is officially dead. In February, Twitter announced that full free API access would be going to the wayside in favor of paid tiers. Though users had been holding out hope that the app would be able to function again, that won’t be the case. Among these apps was Tweetbot, one of the more popular Twitter companion apps. You can do this yourself by going to iOS Settings -> Your Apple ID -> Subscriptions -> Tweetbot. Earlier this week, Twitter began enforcing rules on its API that resulted in a significant portion of users losing access to long-standing third-party apps. Tweetbot’s developers have confirmed that the app is officially dead. tapbots If you have an existing subscription to Tweetbot we'll be working with Apple to automatically cancel any renewals, but this will likely take a few days.
