Sometime after August 16th, 2018, Twitterrific won’t be able to receive and display notifications natively. In July, The Iconfactory updated Twitterrific: To cover this cost, a third-party app would need to charge over $16 per month to break even.Īs a result, third-party developers have spent the summer preparing their apps for the transition. Pricing for Premium access is $2,899 per month for 250 users.
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The free API allows us to implement some push notifications, but they would be limited to 15 Twitter accounts – our products must deliver notifications to hundreds of thousands of customers. Second, it’s a paid API that, according to Apps of a Feather, would be cost-prohibitive to implement: First, the new API does not include all of the functionality of the API it replaces. Twitter is replacing its streaming API, on which third parties relied, with a new API, but it’s problematic for a couple of reasons. Although Twitter has not flipped the switch on the changes yet, apps like Twitterrific and Tweetbot have already taken steps to deal with the changes. The ensuing uproar among users caused Twitter to delay the API transition until tomorrow, August 16, 2018. The Iconfactory, Tapbots, and other makers of Twitter clients created a website called Apps of a Feather…Stick Together to explain how the looming changes would affect customers. Twitter’s new API still hadn’t been made available to third-party developers. In April 2017, Twitter announced plans to eventually deprecate certain parts of its API that third-party apps rely on.įast forward one year to April 2018, roughly 10 weeks before the scheduled API transition of mid-June. The latest chapter in Twitter’s contentious relationship with third-party developers is coming to a close.
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