After 10 years of being the best Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac, Tweetbot creators announce they are leaving app development due to the latest decisions by Twitter which, among other things, have terminated third-party applications.
What many of us feared since Elon Musk took over Twitter has happened. All the decisions made under the command of its new owner worsened the experience of using Twitter, and the icing on the cake was the unilateral decision and without notice to terminate third-party applications. For no reason and out of all logic, Twitter decided a few days ago to block most of the applications that had access to its social network from continuing to operate, and the first major application to make the decision to throw in the towel was summer Tweetbot, but it will surely not be the only one. One of the fixed apps on the first screen of my iPhone will no longer be, and with that we will have to ask ourselves if it is worth continuing to use a social network that is going from bad to worse. If you were a Tweetbot subscriber, you need to cancel the subscription, which you can do from your iCloud account settings on the iPhone, in the “Subscriptions” section.
Mastodon takes the alternative flag to Twitter. It’s an open, free social network that’s still light years away from what Twitter has become, but it has the foundation to become one, and if big developers like Tapbots bet on it, surely they can give it a go. the boost It needs to grow and get a sufficient user base to consider the change. Ivory will be the new application that will be launched soon to access Mastodon, and they promise it will be even better than Tweetbot. Changes are always difficult, but from what we’ve seen, it looks like we’ll have no choice but to start using Mastodon, because the Twitter thing seems to have taken a path of no turning back and whose the end does not look good.
