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Edit lists in twitterrific6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() App Graph will use the official Twitter app to gather the list of apps installed on your iOS devices and send that list back to Twitter. With Twitter’s recent announcement of App Graph, another explanation for the company’s desire to dominate the user experience has appeared: the next version of the Twitter iOS app will try to collect personal information from your devices. That never quite made sense to me, since Twitter could have simply required developers to include ads in their clients instead of introducing draconian user limits. It was originally theorized that Twitter was shutting out third-party developers because it wanted to ensure that users were viewing its ads. For example, Twitter’s official Mac app can’t even edit lists or sync timeline positions with its iOS sibling. This is especially frustrating since Twitter doesn’t pay a lot of attention to its own apps. Twitter mentioned that it might allow more tokens for certain developers but has so far denied extra tokens for any apps that compete with its official clients. In simple terms, one token is required for each user, so limiting the number of tokens allotted to an app limits the number of users who can use that app. of the Twitter API, announced on 16 August 2012, placed severe limits on user tokens for Twitter clients: 100,000 for new apps, and older apps with more than 100,000 users were allowed twice their existing number of users in tokens. While Apple’s transition to the iOS 7 design language derailed the Mac overhaul, the main reason for the long delay is Twitter’s now-strict limitations on client developers, which makes investment in an updated Mac client a risky business proposition. Mike Beasley of 9to5 Mac talked with Gedeon Maheux of The Iconfactory, developers of Twitterrific, to find out what the holdup is. While the more popular iOS app remains on the cutting edge, its Mac counterpart feels like a museum piece. While the iOS version keeps trucking along, Twitterrific for the Mac hasn’t been updated in a year, with a promised version 5 in limbo. Unfortunately, Twitterrific’s future on the Mac is shaky. ![]() Without Twitterrific, Twitter arguably wouldn’t be the service it is today. It was the first client to use the term “tweet,” the first to use a bird icon, and the first to support replies and conversations. ![]() One app that particularly shaped the course of Twitter was Twitterrific for the Mac and iPhone. One factor in Twitter’s success was the service’s early support for third-party clients. #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.Growl notification system, the ability to delete your own tweets directly from Twitterrific, and a secret Easter egg: the patented SonicTwoosh technology (check the Read Me for how to enable this fun little extra). In addition to those features, newer versions have added support for the And if you want to take advantage of Twitter’s advanced features (favoriting a tweet or sending someone a direct message, for example), those functions are tucked away in a handy pop-up menu or accessible via a keyboard shorcut when Twitterrific is in the foreground. If you want to reply to someone else’s or view their profile, that’s as easy as clicking the little arrow icon in their message. If you just want to send your updates (or “tweets”, as they’re dubbed), that’s no problem. The careful attention to design paid by Twitterrific’s developers means that the application be as simple or as complex as you choose. And Twitterrific doesn’t requiring shifting your full attention from whatever you’re doing rather it operates as an floating application that be can be summoned or banished at will by virtue of a user-definable hot key. Twitterrific will automatically check for messages at an interval that you decide, or let you refresh the list manually if you don’t want it constantly bothering you. For one thing, you no longer have to go back to the website every time you want to see what your friends have been saying. ![]()
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